Islamabad, Aug 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court in Pakistan has summoned the entire record related to the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto within two weeks, and hinted at constituting a larger bench to hear this important matter.
A three-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Pervez, and Justice Amir Hani Muslim took up on Monday a petition of Mohammad Aslam Chaudhry, who served as protocol officer of Bhutto for 21 years, The Dawn reports.
The court also questioned Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq about findings of the inquiries conducted by the United Nations Inquiry Commission and Scotland Yard into the December 27, 2007, bomb-and-gun attack that killed Bhutto.
Aslam Chaudhry has challenged the judgment of the Lahore High Court in his petition, as it had dismissed his plea for registration of a second FIR in Ms Bhutto's assassination case.
The petition has also requested that criminal proceedings be initiated against former President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf and others for allegedly planning the assassination of Bhutto and executing the plan.
It said that Musharraf was the key person to have benefited from Bhutto's death, adding that she was one of his party's main election rivals. It also said that Musharraf, Ex-Director General of Intelligence Bureau Syed Ijaz Shah and former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi were among those named by Bhutto as her would be assassins, but none of them had been charged with her murder. (ANI)
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