Pakistan to approach Interpol to secure arrest of Pervez Musharraf
23 Feb 2012
Pakistani authorities yesterday vowed to use the international police agency Interpol to arrest former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Interior minister Rehman Malik said the government was moving for Musharraf's red notice, referring to the Interpol's international arrest warrant.
He added the government would get him through Interpol to Pakistan.
The announcement came as part of a progress report of the four-year-long assassination probe that was presented to provincial lawmakers yesterday in Bhutto's home province of Sindh. The briefing that lasted several hours was broadcast live on Pakistani TV.
Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-suicide attack in December 2007, shortly after her return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile to take part in the 2008 general elections.
According to Malik and the head of the investigation team, former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud plotted the assassination and paid the equivalent of about $4,500 to a network of Islamist militants to carry out the killing.
