TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan may today deliver its verdict in a decade-old-case involving the gruesome assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Former two-time premier Bhutto was killed in a gun and bombing attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007 when she came out of park after addressing an election rally.
The case was registered soon after the assassination and the trial went through many ups and down until concluded yesterday in Rawalpindi. The anti-terrorism court will give its judgment on five militants from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group and two senior police officers.
ATC Judge Asghar Ali Khan who heard the case in city’s Adiala Jail reserved the judgment after conducting day-to-day hearing going on since Monday.
The trial of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf who was the president when Bhutto was killed and who has been accused will be held separately on his return to Pakistan.
The five suspects Rafaqat Hussain, Husnain Gul, Sher Zaman, Aitzaz Shah and Abdul Rashid were arrested soon after the assassination and have been in jail.
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