Benazir murder case : Witnesses to record statements today

General Pervez Musharraf, however, has vehemently denied that he made menacing telephone calls to Benazir Bhutto

RAWALPINDI:

An anti-terrorism court will record statements of two witnesses in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. The court will cross examine American journalist Mark Siegel’s testimony in the case on January 20, 2016.

In his testimony recorded on October 1, Siegel 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.

Siegel had recorded his statement before Justice Rai Muhammad Ayub of the special anti-terrorism court of Rawalpindi in the Benazir murder case via video link from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington on Thursday.

General (retired) Pervez Musharraf, however, has vehemently denied that he made menacing telephone calls to Benazir Bhutto ahead of her return to Pakistan in 2007, as claimed by Siegel in his testimony.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 7^th,  2015.