Mush among BB killers
RAWALPINDI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted interim challan in former premier Benazir Bhuttos murder case with an anti-terrorism court here on Monday, including the name of former President General (r) Pervez Musharraf as an accused.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed Khan, while hearing the case at Adiala Jail, accepted FIAs interim challan and set February 12, 2011 as the next date of hearing.
In the interim challan, the FIA also declared Musharraf an absconder, mentioning that the accused would be declared as wanted if he did not appear before the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe into the BB murder case.
FIA Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar, during the proceedings of the case, said if Musharraf failed to appear before JIT, the agency would submit an application in the court to declare him proclaimed offender. Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad were in contact with the former president on the day of the incident and they were following the instructions of Musharraf, he added. FIA has made efforts to probe Musharraf but he did not reply therefore FIA has declared him absconder, he added. The FIA also submitted a report of Blackberry mobile phones sets, being used by Benazir Bhutto, in the court, which were recovered by the agency from Bilawal House, Karachi. According to the report, she neither received nor made any call from her sets after 03:00 p.m. on December 27, 2007. The report further revealed that BB even did not contact her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, during that time.
Meanwhile, the court rejected the bail pleas of former city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town, Khurram Shahzad, in the BB murder case. Malik Waheed Anjum, defence counsel for Saud and Khurram, while giving his argument, said that JIT could not find any evidence against his clients despite probing both of them for 24 days. He claimed that data of Blackberry sets had been tampered and the JIT did not have data about the calls and SMSs after December 23, 2007.
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