Five persons were acquitted, while two have been sentenced to prison in former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case, reported Pakistani media on 31 August. The anti-terrorism court also declared former President Pervez Musharraf as an absconder in the case.
Almost 10 years after Benazir Bhutto was killed after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan delivered its verdict.
A former two-time premier, Bhutto was killed in a gun and bombing attack in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007 when she came out of a park after addressing an election rally.
The case was registered soon after the assassination, and the trial went through many ups and down until it was concluded on Wednesday in Rawalpindi. The anti-terrorism court will give its judgment on five militants affiliated to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group and two senior police officers.
