Benazir Bhutto murder case verdict challenged in LHC
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RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) challenged in the Lahor High Court's Rawalpindi bench on Monday the verdict of the anti-terrorism court in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
On August 31, the court hearing the former prime minister's assassination case for over nine years cleared five accused in the case, sentenced two former police officials to jail and declared former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf an absconder.
Speaking to the media outside the court, PPP's Latif Khosa, who was also a counsel in the case, said Benazir had repeatedly stated that Musharraf was not providing her security.
Khosa, accompanied by senior party leaders Sherry Rehman and Nayyar Bukhari, among others, claimed Musharraf did not even let Benazir keep her own private security.
"She had said that Musharraf would be directly responsible in case anything happened to her," reiterated Khosa.
He accused Aziz of ordering the removal of a security cordon around Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 so Benazir could be easily killed. He also claimed that Musharraf got Saud Aziz, one of the two police officials punished in the case, posted as the Rawalpindi city police officer to ensure his role in the assassination.