Benazir assassination case: FIA awaits details of Musharraf’s assets

ATC has ordered confiscation of former president’s property.

LAHORE:


The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is still waiting for revenue officials to submit details of movable and immovable assets of former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who has been declared proclaimed offender by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, despite court orders to confiscate his property, The Express Tribune has learnt.


Request for details of Musharraf’s property was forwarded to the members of boards of revenue of all the four provinces by the counter-terrorism wing of the FIA which had asked that the information be compiled on a priority basis.

The ATC had given the FIA until June 25 to comply with its orders and seize the former president’s property.


The FIA prosecutors had requested the court to issue orders to confiscate Musharraf’s moveable and immovable property after he failed to appear before the court on the previous hearing.

The ATC special judge had directed the SHO City, Rawalpindi and collector, Islamabad, to submit the record.

Investigators have alleged that the Musharraf regime had failed to provide adequate security to former premier Benazir Bhutto upon her return to Pakistan from self-exile. She was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack minutes after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, on December 27, 2007.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2011.
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