Rawalpindi: The government of Pakistan on Wednesday written a letter to Interpol for the arrest of ex-Army cheif and former president Pervez Musharraf in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case, private news television reported.
“The deputy FIA Khalid Rasool handed the arrest papers to the Interior Ministry which forwarded it to the Interpol office in Pakistan. The warrant was issued VIA e-mail and post; it was later signed off by the officials and sent to the Interpol headquarters,” reported added.
The report said: “Copies of the statements given by the then director-general of Counter Intelligence wing of ISI Javed Iqbal Cheema and former director-general of Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan Ejaz Shah have also been sent to Interpol.”
Musharraf would be placed on Interpol’s most wanted list after an arrest notice issued by the agency.
The warrant states that Musharraf should be brought back to Pakistan in order to carry out proceedings against him in the murder probe of former president Benazir Bhutto.
Earlier, Interior Minister Rehman Malik publicised the detailed investigation report of the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He affirmed the nation that Musharraf would be arrested soon as he was a key offender in the case.
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