Musharraf arrested over Bhutto murder case

Islamabad. General Pervez Musharraf has been formally arrested in relation to the Benazir Bhutto murder case.Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that Musharraf will remain at his Chak Shahzad farmhouse residence but will be produced at the anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi on Friday.“The Musharraf case has many implications given the fact that the country is less than two weeks away from election,” he said.“It will be the responsibility of the new elected government to deal with this important issue.“He has admirers no doubt. Many of the powerful political parties were all on board with the former military ruler.”Since his return to Pakistan in a bid to contest the 2013 general election, Musharraf has been dealing with a number of legal cases against him, including the detention of judges and treason against the state.Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 while Musharraf was president.She was killed after addressing an election campaign rally in the city.