Musharraf to face trial for Bhutto’s murder
The indictment of the army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup — once Pakistan’s most powerful man — was almost an unthinkable event in a nuclear-armed country ruled by the military for half of its 66-year history.
Bhutto, a former prime minister, died in a suicide gun and bomb attack in December 2007 after a campaign rally in the city of Rawalpindi, not far from the heavily guarded courtroom where the charges were read out yesterday.
