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VideoBEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- A Pakistan court has issued an arrest warrant against former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the murder of former leader Benazir Bhutto. A spokesman for Musharraf says the charges are baseless, but that the former President will face court, if he formally receives a charge.
An anti-terrorism court has ordered the former president to appear in the court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi next Saturday.
The prosecutors allege that Musharraf, who was president at the time of the assassination, has refused a request to cooperate with the investigation into Bhutto's death.
The interim charge further says that the former Rawalpindi police chief, recently arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency on charges of negligence in providing security to Bhutto, were acting on Musharraf's orders.
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide bomb attack after an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, weeks after returning to Pakistan following years of self-imposed exile.
A spokesman for Musharraf describes the charges as "politically motivated."
Mohammed Ali Saif, Pervez Musharraf's Barrister, said, "This allegation and this accusation is based on simply surmises and conjectures -- and on statements that appeared time and again in different media channels by his political opponents. If at all they approach us, and they approach President Musharraf for recording his version, we will definitely co-operate because that is what they should do under the law."
Musharraf has been living in self-exile in Britain since April 2009.
He says he intends to return to Pakistan before the next general election in 2013.
He has also formed a new party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, with an eye to the next election.
