Pervez Musharraf in Judicial Custody for Benazir Bhutto assassination case - Tuesday April 30,2013

Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday April 30,2013 sent to judicial custody for a fortnight by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case.

Though Pervez Musharraf was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days, he will be held at his plush farmhouse at Chak Shahzad on the outskirts of Islamabad, which has been declared a 'sub-jail'.

The anti-terrorism court adjourned the case till May 14,2013

Note
At the last hearing on April 26, 2013 Pervez Musharraf had been remanded to the physical custody of the FIA for four days so that he could be questioned by investigators probing Bhutto s assassination.

Bhutto Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007

Pervez Musharraf was formally arrested by the FIA on April 25 after the anti-terrorism court directed investigators to include him in the probe into the assassination

Pervez Musharraf returned to Pakistan on March 24,2013 after a nearly four-year long self-imposed exile abroad to contest the May 11,2013 general elections. However, Pakistani authorities disqualified him from contesting the election, effectively putting an end to his ambitions for a political comeback.

He is facing several other criminal cases. Lawyers have petitioned the Supreme Court to put him on trial for treason for imposing emergency rule in 2007 and he is also facing charges over the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation.