Ex-Pakistan Ruler Musharraf Declared Fugitive in Murder Case

A Pakistan anti-terrorism court declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who is currently overseas in self-exile, as an absconder and ordered his arrest after he failed to appear at the murder trial of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The judge, Asghar Ali Khan, ordered the confiscation of Musharraf’s assets, public prosecutor Azhar Ali Chaudhry said by phone, adding that the judge sentenced two police officers to imprisonment while finding five other suspects not guilty in the verdict handed down in the northern military garrison city of Rawalpindi on Thursday. -- More...