Musharraf charged over Bhutto death

Pakistan’s former leader Pervez Musharraf has been charged with murder over the 2007 assassination of prime minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to make a political comeback.

The decision by a court in Rawalpindi marks the first time Mr Musharraf, or any former army chief in Pakistan, has been charged with a crime.