Musharraf l Accused of conspiracy to murder of Benazir Bhutto

The dictator Pervez Musharraf has been charged with conspiracy and collaboration in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. "It must be judged", said the prosecutor Mohamed Azhar after a brief hearing in a court of Rawalpindi in which the charges were read. The case against the military took power in a coup in 1999, after which he became the most powerful man in Pakistan is unprecedented in a country with nuclear weapons and ruled by the military lamayor of its 66 years history. The case has also broken an unwritten rule that military leaders are untouchable. Meanwhile, the country is trying to shake off the legacy of decades of military rule under the new government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Musharraf, who made ​​public statements in his testimony, denied all charges against him. The journalists could not enter the courtroom for the hearing, which lasted nearly 20 minutes. Next hearing was set for August 27. Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack after an election rally, weeks after her return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile.