LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has sent another reminder to the Interpol on Wednesday, after waiting for two months for it to issue a red warrant against former president Pervez Musharraf in Benazir Bhutto’s murder case.
The FIA prosecutor confirmed that a reminder had been dispatched to the Interpol through the National Central Bureau (NCB).
Prosecutor of the case Chaudhry Zulfiqar, talking to The Express Tribune, also clarified media reports stating that the Interpol had rejected Pakistan’s request to issue a red warrant against Musharraf and said that the FIA has not received any such reply from them.
He denied media reports which said that the Interpol rejected the request on the grounds that Pakistani authorities and the FIA had sent insufficient documentation for the purpose of issuing a red warrant.
He clarified that more than two months ago, a letter issued by the Interpol stated that it could not issue a red warrant based on the evidences and the documentation presented for the arrest of the former president. The Interpol had also asked about the validity of the warrant issued against Musharraf by the Anti Terrorism Court Rawalpindi.
In reply to the letter, the FIA had immediately dispatched the summary of the case, the arrest warrant and documentation in addition to the investigation reports. It also included copies of statements by then director-general of National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) of Ministry of Interior (MOI) Brigadier (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema and former director general of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Ejaz Shah, and US-based journalist Marc Siegel’s email to Benazir Bhutto and copies of the orders issued by the anti-terrorism court and other relevant documents, Zulfiqar added.
He further said that that the FIA has clarified to the Interpol that the perpetual warrant of arrest is valid till the arrest of the accused.
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@Paki and @Syed Shah I totally agree with you. He reminded the world of us and I quote: "Today we are the poorest, the most illiterate, the most backward, the most unhealthy, the most un-enlightened, the most deprived, and the weakest of all the human race."emphasized text Although some people will not accept it, the West surely has lost patience with us. In developed countries we fall behind in education, employment and health. We need to start from scratch and forget about medieval times. This is 2012.
Political stunt.
If you want Musharraf then negotiate an extradition treaty with the UK -- Interpol isn't going to circumvent UK's sovereignty just to make your FIA happy.
@Syed Shah:
thank you for speaking the truth.
All the enemies of BB and PPP can claim that BB came out of the jeep on a phone call. The haters know it all, yet all three of BB's kids who were teen agers and pretty smart do not know anything about it. The rumors is created by the enemies of PPP and pushed by them not by the BB's own kids! Looks like after killing her, her enemies are more in love with BB than her own family, just like after hanging ZAB his enemies pretend that he was a great leader and the current PPP is not what ZAB wanted. Why did these late comes of ZAB and BB’s supporters did not come out to protest their killing and why were they with the ruling dictators? Regards, Mirza
In the meantime the real killers are remain free!!
This is the biggest blow to Pakitan's fake independent Judiciary who are favoring Nawaz party and Sharif family and giving illogical statments and judgements agains Musharraf. It is rapildy loosing its credibility and the CJ Iftikhar should take notice and fire the ATC judge and also fine Mr .Zulfiqar for putting Pakistan,s reputaion down
Musharraf is truly the leader of national and International repute. When this red warrant was isssued he siad nothing is going to happen as he knew this is fake .Thanlks Nawaz money had have no influence on interpol
Musharraf Zinda Bad Pakistan Paindabad
@Syed Shah: 100% agree with you.
What kind of a warrant is this????? It is valued in Pakistan only, They don t believe our
courts. 85% terrorist were set free in this country U S reports. Take the case of
Karachi 12 to15 poor people killed every day when the culprit is presented in the
courts either bail is given or with dignity the Murderer walk out. No one in this country
follow the law and order how one except from others.. Instead of wasting
money on false cases bring the real culprit to the books. Musharraf was good to his
nation Politician don t like him because chances of corruption nil . The judiciary
please go after the culprits and punish those are killing innocent people daily
and our beloved Army
This is a classic case of hatered. Musharraf may have been bad for the politicians coz he was in the way of their corruption. But was he bad for the people? Ask them. They will tell you, they were well off under him.
Mr. Nawaz Sharif was toying with all previous COSs and humiliated them. The army was not going to take it lying down this time round. The coup took place air not on the ground. What Nawaz Sharif forgets are his misdeeds. He brought the house upon himself. He should do some reality check and get out of the hate mode.
That judge ATC is a tout of Nawaz Sharif. There is no way you can fix the blame of Benazir murder on Musharraf. He was the head of the State. Did he order the murder? No. In fact he was the biggest loser with her departure. Both had an understanding. Why would he eliminate his partner? Highly foolish and foolish he isn't. President does not go and kill nor can he be blamed for the inefficiency of the system. Accusing him is totally rubbish.
Sanity should prevail in judiciary and executive and they better stop this witch hunt. They are wasting time of the people and national wealth. If judiciary is so good then why do cases in Pakistan take forever to be resolved with the corrupt to the core judiciary. The judiciary should focus on people's issues. It is only bothered about politicians issues and how to please them or be after them they do not like. Judiciary is losing all respect. This is going to be very bad for the country. God save Pakistan.
UK wont let their man be arrested.
Quaid e Azam created, Musharraf constructed, and both PPP and PML-N destroyed Pakistan.
Its like a game of Chess - The Govt of Pakistan ( Rawalpindi) has the Govt of Pakistan ( Islamabad) by the short hair.
This is an attempt by GOP ( Islamabad) to keep GOP ( Pindi) on the hop.
Why all this Drama ? You know perfectly well that GHQ will not allow anyone in Pakistan to arrest Mush ! So why waste resources with requests for something that is never likely to happen ?