Islamabad, March 27 : A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday directed prosecutors to contact Interpol to help serve an arrest warrant issued for former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with a case related to the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed of the Rawalpindi-based court issued the order after prosecutors informed him that they had been unable to serve the warrant issued by the court.
The judge asked the prosecutors to present Musharraf in court at the next hearing on April 2.
Pakistani authorities will ask Interpol to circulate a global arrest warrant for Musharraf, prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told reporters after the hearing.The authorities had asked the British Home Department to help execute the arrest warrant but had not yet received any response so far, he said.
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The court had earlier declared Musharraf, who lives in self-exile in London, an "absconder".His aides have said he will not return to Pakistan to take part in the hearings.Bhutto was killed after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
At the time of Bhutto's death, Musharraf had blamed the assassination on Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who was subsequently killed in a US drone attack.A UN commission that investigated the assassination said in its reports that Musharraf's regime had failed to provide Bhutto adequate security.PTI
