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ISLAMABAD - The government on Saturday explored various options to bring former president Pervez Musharraf back to Pakistan in case he did not appear before the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court on February 19 for his alleged involvement in Benazir Bhutto's murder. Interior Minister Rehman Malik chaired a high-level meeting at the FIA headquarters attended by the investigation team probing the murder and senior FIA officials.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that the meeting

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf will not return to Pakistan to comply with an arrest warrant issued by a court over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman in London said on Saturday. "No, he won't be going back for this hearing," Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesman Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League, told AFP, adding that the warrant was totally ridiculous.
Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said Musharraf was alleged to have been part of a "broad conspiracy" to

RAWALPINDI - The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf for his alleged involvement in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. In an in-camera hearing of the case at the Adiala Jail, ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf, and ordered him to appear before the court on February 19.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), during the last hearing of the case, had included Musharraf's name

ISLAMABAD - Former president Pervez Mushrraf's lawyer on Wednesday denied media reports that Musharraf would record his statement with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after the agency declared him an absconder in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
Talking to Pakistan Today Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif denied Mushrraf would record his statement, saying no decision had been taken in this regard so far. According to a private TV channel, lawyers of the former president said on

LAHORE - Former IB director general Brig (r) Ejaz Shah has strongly denied media reports that he had become an approver against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
"I have nothing to do with the case. I am neither a respondent nor a witness in the case. How could I become an approver?" Shah said. He said he reserved a right to take legal action against the TV channels running such false and fabricated stories.
On Monday, the FIA

ISLAMABAD - In a major development in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday declared former president Pervez Musharraf an absconder and said the former president, who is wanted in the case for probe, might also be declared a proclaimed offender if he did not appear before the investigation team.
The FIA mentioned Musharraf's name in the interim charge-sheet submitted with the Anti-Terrorism Court (ACT) hearing the murder case. The court

LAHORE - Former president and chief of the All Pakistan Muslim League, Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, was thrown a shoe at during a conference in London. Musharraf was addressing the gathering when the incident occurred, however the shoe fell in the front rows and failed to reach Musharraf.
The security personnel sprung to action and took the man out of the place. The attacker kept chanting slogans in favour of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, currently in the US detention. The man who hurled the

WAH CANT - Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday warned if the due rights were not given to the people, the rulers' fate would be worse than that of Pervez Musharraf.
Talking to media persons in Taxila, he observed that the present government was worse than Musharraf regime. The law and order situation was deteriorating in the country and poverty stricken people were forced to commit suicides, he held.
Nisar voiced grave concern over

KARACHI - Holding former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf responsible for the murder of Benazir Bhutto, her father-in-law Hakim Ali Zardari said on Thursday that it is unlikely that the culprits involved in the killing of the PPP leader would be arrested.
"Pervez Musharraf is involved in Benazir's murder. He has escaped [from the country], and he [still] enjoys America's support. And [in this situation] there is least hope that Benazir's murderers would be

JEDDAH - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that a national government should be formed in Pakistan in the country's best interest, adding that he will definitely return.
"I will definitely go to Pakistan. I am only waiting for my political party to gain ground after which I will go and face the court cases," Musharraf said in an interview with Arabian language newspaper Al-Sharq AlAusat, adding "I left Pakistan because the judges are political and my life was in

LAHORE - Terrorism and inflation is on the rise and all the government can do is cut developmental budget and fire employees, former president Pervez Musharraf said in a statement released by the All Pakistan Muslim League's (APML) media cell.
Not only is the country's situation worsening but terrorism is also growing, he said, adding that people were never fired in his tenure but his regime generated new jobs, and raised developmental budget from Rs 100 billion to Rs 600

ISLAMABAD - Dr Abdul Basit, counsel for two PCO judges of the Lahore High Court, pleaded in the Supreme court on Thursday for proceedings against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf for high treason and that he be hanged for "his unconstitutional acts of November 3, 2007", which led to the ouster of over 60 judges of the superior courts.
A bench of Justices Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Jawwad S. Khawaja, Khilji Arif Hussain and Tariq Parvez, was hearing a contempt of

KARACHI - Pervez Ali Shah Jilani, a senior politician of Sindh, formally announced on Wednesday that he is joining the All-Pakistan Muslim League (APML) led by former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
At a press conference held at the party's newly-launched office in a plaza on Shahrah-e-Faisal, the central leadership of APML comprising Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif, Maj Gen (retd) Rashid Qureshi and Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain welcomed Jilani in the party.
Barrister

Islamabad - Former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf is planning to return to Pakistan this year, Online learnt from sources on Sunday.
Sources said after consultations with Chaudhry Shahbaz, Member of the National Assembly Sehezada Mohuddin, former MNA Pervez Ali Shah, Dr Sher Afgan Niazi, Maj Gen (r) Rashid Qureshi, Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, and Chaudhry Fawad, Pervez Musharraf has decided to return to Pakistan.
According to close aides of the former president,

DUBAI - Former president Pervez Musharraf on Monday said his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML), was prepared for possible early elections, as the government scrambled to save its ruling coalition.
Musharraf said he will return to Pakistan before the next election. "We are ready to contest elections," Musharraf told reporters at his apartment in Dubai. "A little more time would be useful, as we are a new party. However, we will definitely try if the elections come

LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said he was not responsible for the killings of Benazir Bhutto and Akbar Bugti, and that he will not appear before any inquiry commission on this count.
In an interview with a private TV channel, Musharraf said it was not his responsibility to provide security to Benazir. "I was head of the state. A government was in place at that time. Providing security was the responsibility of security agencies. That obligation was

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr said on Wednesday that it was fact former president Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of the former PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
"This is not an allegation but it had been proved in UN inquiry commission report," he said, adding providing foolproof security to two-time former prime minister was responsibility of the then Musharraf administration. Earlier, Musharraf told a lie when he