Benazir Bhutto. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) will record statement of SSP Tahir Ayub in the Benazir assassination case on Monday.
ATC Rai Muhammad Ayub Khan Marth will hear the case in Adiala Jail today. The district administration will also submit a report about arrangements it has made for cross-examination of American journalist Mark Siegel, scheduled on January 20.
Benazir assassination case : Arrangements made to record Siegel’s testimony, court told
In his testimony recorded on October 1, Siegel, a witness in the case, had said that days before she travelled to Pakistan, slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto received threatening phone calls from the then president Pervez Musharraf, warning her of threats to her life should she choose to return before the 2007 elections.
Benazir assassination case: Mark Siegel agrees to record statement
Siegel had recorded his statement before Justice Marth via video link from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. Musharraf, however, has vehemently denied that he made menacing calls to Benazir ahead of her return to Pakistan in 2007.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2016.
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