{"id":29272,"date":"2013-08-20T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29272"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:22:27","slug":"musharraf-charged-with-murder-for-failing-to-protect-benazir-bhutto-from-being-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29272","title":{"rendered":"Musharraf charged with murder for &#8216;failing to protect Benazir Bhutto from being assassinated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Benazir-Bhutto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29268\" alt=\"Benazir Bhutto\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Benazir-Bhutto.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Benazir-Bhutto.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Benazir-Bhutto-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>Pakistan&#8217;s former president Pervez Musharraf was today charged with murder over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by a court in Rawalpindi marks the first time any former army chief has been charged with a crime in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Musharraf has been charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and facilitation for murder.<\/p>\n<p>The former army commando who took power in a coup in 1999 appeared in person at the hearing and pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n<p>The next hearing will take place on August 27, when the first evidence will be presented.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bhutto was killed in December 2007 during a gun and bomb attack at a political rally in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim that Musharraf, who was then president, failed to protect her properly.<\/p>\n<p>Musharraf, 70, left Pakistan in 2008 after being forced to resign from office, but returned to the country in March and vowed to contest this year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Bhutto case, Musharraf is involved in a case related to the detention of judges and the death of a separatist leader.<\/p>\n<p>He also faces threats from the Pakistani Taliban, which tried to assassinate him twice while he was in office and vowed to try again if he returned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s former president Pervez Musharraf was today charged with murder over the assassination of Benazir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-29272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-pakistan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}