February 7, 2011 5:37 PM

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Musharraf named as accused in Bhutto's assassination

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf was today named as an accused in an interim charge sheet filed by prosecutors in the Bhutto case in an anti-terrorism court. The court is conducting the trial of suspects charged with involvement in assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile in Britain since early 2009, was named as an accused in the interim Challan or charge sheet filed by the federal investigation agency in the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, the state-tv reported.A report by a UN commission that probed the Bhutto assassination had blamed Musharraf for failing to take adequate steps to provide security to former premier. Bhutto was killed by a suicide attacker in Rawalpindi in December 2007 during an election rally in Rawalpindi. Musharraf was then President of Pakistan.

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