Two top Pakistani police officials were today arrested in a courtroom on the orders of an anti-terrorism judge conducting the trial of suspects accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.Two top Pakistani police officials were today arrested in a courtroom on the orders of an anti-terrorism judge conducting the trial of suspects accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who is conducting the trial within the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for security reasons, rejected the bail applications of former city police chief Saud Aziz and former Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad and directed officials to arrest them.
The move came after the Federal Investigation Agency submitted a supplementary chargesheet in which it named the two police officers as accused and sought their arrest to take forward its probe into the assassination.
Prosecutors have raised questions about the alleged failure of the two police officers to provide adequate security to Bhutto during an election rally held in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, the day she was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack.
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