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Musharraf ordered to appear in court for Bugti murder trial

Islamabad: Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf was today ordered by an anti-terrorism court to appear before it on April 21 or face arrest in connection with the murder case of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar



Since Musharraf returned to Pakistan from self-exile in March last year, he has faced prosecution in four major cases, including one in which he has been indicted on high treason charges and another for his alleged involvement in the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.  

Musharraf was indicted on March 31 in the treason trial for suspending, subverting and abrogating the Constitution, imposing an emergency in the country in November 2007 and detaining judges of the superior courts.  

The former president, who is the first military ruler in Pakistan's history to be tried in court, has rejected all the charges leveled against him.

Musharraf is currently staying at his sprawling Chak Shehzad farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, where he was shifted to from the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi.

His farmhouse has been declared a “satellite facility of the military hospital”.

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