LAHORE: The prime suspect in Benazir Bhutto murder case was arrested again by the Counter Terrorism Department, Rawalpindi after he was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.
The suspect Rafaqat Hussain managed to secure bail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, however, was taken into custody by the CTD for a terror attack case lodged with a local police station.
A CTD official was quoted in a local media report saying that ‘the Kot Lakhpat jail officials got his release orders on June 23, 2018, and following written orders, they released Rafaqat Hussain’.
“The CTD arrested him in another suicide attack carried out on Feb 6, 2007, at Rawalpindi International Airport,” the official was quoted as saying.
According to this case, he said, the terrorist had detonated a bomb in a parking area of the airport wounding some law-enforcement agencies personnel and killing himself after a brief exchange of fire.
Meanwhile, the suspect’s father had also filed a plea to the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) claiming that Rafaqat Hussain had gone missing from the prison.
Earlier, an anti-terrorism court acquitted five suspects for lack of evidence and declared former military ruler Pervaiz Musharraf a fugitive.
ATC Judge Muhammad Asghar Khan found two police officers guilty of ‘mishandling the crime scene’, making them the only people to have been convicted of the assassination of Benazir in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007.