RAWALPINDI: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued arrest warrants for Rawal Town Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad and former Rawalpindi city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Shahzad and Aziz under sections 119, 109 and 20 for negligence and misappropriations in evidences required for investigations. The judge said both police officials
and other five accuse in the case, including Abur Rasheed, Rafaqat Hussain, Hussain Gull, Atizaz Shah and Sher Zaman would be indicted in the next hearing on December 11. Benazir was assassinated in a gun-and-suicide attack after she addressed a political rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, on December 27, 2007.
Special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said, “I filed an application that the two police officers be summoned as accused in the case for their abetment in the crime and the court has accepted my request today.”
“The officers failed to provide adequate security to Bhutto, denied her a post-mortem and were also responsible for hosing down the scene of the killing immediately after the crime,” the prosecutor said. The court will resume the hearing on December 11, he said.
