Pakistan Government Seeking Interpol Warrant against Pervez Musharraf

February 21, 2012 – Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s interior minister has requested Interpol to arrest former President Pervez Musharraf for failing to provide adequate protection for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto upon her return to Pakistan to run for office.

Militants assassinated Butto, granted immunity from prosecution of corruption charges by President Musharraf in October of 2007, during a campaign rally. Two militants attacked Bhutto’s convoy one firing gunshots, fatally wounding the former Prime Minister while another detonated a suicide style bomb.

Bhutto was ousted from office by former Pakistan President Farooq Leghari amidst charges of corruption and fled to Dubai in self-imposed exile later, moving to London.

Pakistan, the scene of Osama bin Laden’s death by the hands of U.S. Navy Seals in an operation last year, has come under fire recently by neighboring government officials of Afghanistan for harboring, aiding, and abetting the Taliban along with, their foreign terrorist groups wreaking havoc on Karzai’s fragile government in hopes of over throwing the regime. The Taliban are aiming to return Afghanistan to the repressive style regime under which, public mutilation, and murders were commonplace for crimes as simple as, adultery.

Musharraf, has denied all charges against him as well as, seeking to return to his home country to run for reelection however, the current administration fearing loss of power has in turn requested the arrest warrant to obstruct the former leaders ability to return home to do so.

Posted by WNV Headline News on February 21, 2012. Filed under Asia Regional News,Breaking News,Headline News,International - Headline News,International Criminal Justice,International News,Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry