Pakistani prosecutors charge ex-President Musharraf with Benazir Bhutto's murder

According to prosecutors, the former Pakistani President did not ensure reliable protection for Bhutto who returned to her homeland, as a result of which she was killed by extremists in Islamabad's satellite town of Rawalpindi in December 2007. Bhutto, twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack after campaigning for elections that were won by her Pakistan People's Party in February 2008, Itar-Tass says

In March 2013, Musharraf returned to Pakistan from a five-year self-imposed exile abroad to participate in the country's parliamentary elections. However, the Pakistani justice issued a verdict on taking the former president into custody on the strength of charges of seizure of power, treason, illegal dissolution of the Supreme Court and the organization of extra-judicial executions that were brought against him in his home country. By court decision, Musharraf was placed under house arrest in his residence in a suburb of Islamabad.