Will return for Bhutto’s murder trial: Musharraf

“I will certainly come back to Pakistan and face the trial, as and when I am medically fit,” he said, in a statement issued to the media. In March last year, Musharraf flew to Dubai for treatment for spinal cord pain after a three-year travel ban was lifted by the Pakistani supreme court. 

Last Thursday, a Pakistani court termed Musharraf a fugitive in the Bhutto murder trial. As an “absconder”, Musharraf must be arrested and brought to trial if he returns to Pakistan, reported Reuters. Bhutto was assassinated in 2007 in Rawalpindi, weeks after she returned from exile to campaign in elections to bring back civilian rule. 

Musharraf, who was charged in 2013 with being culpable in Bhutto’s murder, is alleged to have been part of a broad conspiracy to have Bhutto killed before national elections.