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Interpol refuses to issue Red Warrant against Musharraf in Benazir Bhutto murder case | | Interpol has rejected Pakistan 's request to issue a Red Warrant against former president and
army chief General (retired) Pervez Musharraf in connection with the Benazir Bhutto
assassination case. Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007
after addressing a public rally at the Liaqat Ali Park. Interpol rejected the
request on grounds that Pakistani authorities and the Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA) had sent insufficient documentation for the purpose of issuing a red warrant,
reports The Dawn. Local authorities have again sent a request to the Interpol
director with documentation in addition to the investigation reports, copies of
statements by then director-general of ISI's counter-intelligence wing Javed Iqbal
Cheema and the former director general of Intelligence Bureau, Ejaz Shah, U.S.-based
journalist Marc Siegel's email to Benazir Bhutto and copies of the orders issued
by the anti-terrorism court. On the other hand the extradition request sent to
the British government was also rejected earlier on the grounds that the two countries
have no formal extradition treaty between them. Musharraf is an accused in the
Benazir Bhutto assassination case and the Anti Terrorism Court had declared Musharraf
an absconder and ordered to freeze his assets. The FIA had sent the arrest warrant
of Musharraf to Interpol along with evidences, especially revelations by a foreign
journalist and a copy of the former president's email sent to Bhutto, seeking
the issuance of red warrants from the Director of Interpol, Pakistan.
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