Benazir assassination case: FIA unable to compile report on Musharraf’s assets
An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi has adjourned the hearings on the Benazir Bhutto assassination case once again after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has delayed providing the court with details on assets of former president Pervez Musharraf, one of the key accused in the case.
The FIA informed Special Judge Shahid Rafique that investigators had unearthed a 1,000 square yard plot owned by the former dictator in Gwadar.
For the case to proceed further, the trial court requires a complete report on Musharraf’s movable and immovable assets to be cautioned since he was declared a proclaimed offender for not appearing in the court as an accused in the former premier’s murder.
FIA officials reiterated that they had written letters to the boards of revenue of the four provinces, the GHQ and the Defence Housing Authority to provide details of Musharraf’s property, but they have yet to receive an answer.
The FIA has accused Musharraf of compromising the security provided to Bhutto on her return from exile and issuing death threats.
On the last date of hearing, FIA prosecutor Chaudhary Zulfiqar Ali had informed the court that Musharraf owned a farmhouse in Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, and Rs80 million in six bank accounts in Pakistan.
Other offenders in the case include former city police officer, Rawalpindi, Saud Aziz, SP Khurram Shahzad, Aitzaz Shah, Sher Zaman, Abdul Rasheed, Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat Hussain. The case has been adjourned till August 10.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 24th, 2011.
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@Abid Mohiuddin: Your reply was excellent, however, it won't register with uneducated and illterate people.
All the kings, sheiks and dictators are history. None of them who ran away, would dare come back. Why would such a totalitarian egotistic man run away if he is going to come back?
@gulfaam: Mr.Gulfam You are challenging the whole concept of the creation of Pakistan and the two nation theory
How long will they drag this baseless fabricated case ?
@gulfaam:
""IF at all ‘Mush’ comes back to this country (which adopted him as a refugee in 1950′s, & who ran away from the Hindus/Sikhs of India;)""
Very shameful and rascists comments for those who sacrificed for Pakistan benefitting people like you who got a home without paying a price.
You dishonour our Quaid too when you say the above.
Wake up. Preach unity instead of hate.
I can bet that this judge is moving under Nawaz instructions and FIA is also playing the the game .I agree with Sohail 110%. Thanks for such a good comment.
I just want to add that this guy,I mean Mr. Musharraf ruled the country for 8 yrs ,which according to some was a dictatorial rule . I cant imagine in a corrupt society like ours and neighboring Muslim countries ,what would have been his wealth in and outside Pakistan and I am astonished that this dictator did nothing for himself but all for Pakistan . Now he is making his livelihood by lecturing all over the world and earning a decent income in a very prestigious way that no current leader in Pakistan can.I challenge all the opponents of Musharraf to give me name of single alive leader in Pakistan who got this prestige .
Thanks Musharraf and " Sub Se Pahle Pakistan"
IF at all 'Mush' comes back to this country (which adopted him as a refugee in 1950's, & who ran away from the Hindus/Sikhs of India;) then I fear he MAY NOT live another day, (to tell his side of the story,) which chance was given to Benazir Bhutto when she returned home (to Pakistan) after her self-imposed exile !!!
Was it a sense of your so called BRITISH vile 'humor' which we SIMPLY term it as NOTHING but as morally reprehensible/despicable & loathsome to leave behind in this sub-continent, an admixture of Brown & White-skinned called as Anglos?
is the benazir murder trial or get musharraf to court trial?????
Witch comment(s) of mine are awaiting moderation? Use of such sentences are supposed to be NOTHING but as a rhetoric (empty-talk) used by those who are the remnants (or left-overs) of the white-skinned rulers who 'raped' this subcontinent of India/Pakistan for OVER 200 years; & who entered it as 'IMPOSTORS 'in the garb of traders?
That is what a well established/documented part our (Indo/Pak) history tells us. All that you left behind as was a new generation called /termed by you as 'Anglos' a MIX of the BROWNS of this subcontinent & of white-skinned guys of your country.
It sounds easy to hide behind such a facade created by your UNKIND rule.
although a far cry...if Mush comes back on the 23rd of March next year ...as he has vowed ....he will be the greatest leader of the country alive ...and it will the responsibility of the rest of the public to vote him to the summit.
They are chasing their own tail to try to impress goodwill with the ISI, CIA, and the coup.