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India-Pakistan
Pakistan asks Interpol to help arrest Perv
2012-02-22
Pakistan will ask Interpol for help in arresting former president Pervez Musharraf for his failure to prevent the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the country's interior minister has said.

Rehman Malik said the government was seeking Musharraf's arrest because he allegedly failed to provide adequate security for Bhutto, who was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack in 2007. He made the comments in a televised address to lawmakers in Sindh province, Bhutto's political stronghold.

Interpol, based in Lyon, France, had no immediate comment.
Either they think the request silly, or the receptionist was out to lunch.
Musharraf, a one-time US ally, went into self-exile in Britain in 2008 after being forced out of the presidency he secured in a 1999 military coup. The current government is being run by Musharraf's political rivals, and the president is Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari.

A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf last year over the allegations.

Musharraf, an ex-army general who wants to return to Pakistan to contest what will be bitterly contested elections likely this year, said the government was playing politics over the case. Musharraf has repeatedly denied any legal responsibility for the killing.

"This is all politics," he told ARY television station on Tuesday. "It's just point scoring and nothing else."

Legal expert Hashmat Habib said Interpol has the right to detain Musharraf and hand him over to Pakistan if it chooses to issue a warrant. But it is unclear how the international police organisation will respond, or indeed whether Malik will go ahead with his threat.
It was silly, then. Perhaps the receptionist had to take a call of nature.
The former prime minister was killed on 27 December 2007, shortly after returning to Pakistan to campaign in elections Musharraf agreed to allow after months of domestic and international pressure.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Is Perv any different from Hamid Gul and General Beg?
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303   2012-02-22 13:41  

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