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The retired General who is already serving a two-week house arrest, set to expire on May 4 for sacking judges when he imposed emergency rule in November 2007, was presented before the ATC on Friday morning where he was served the fresh remand order which he will serve concurrently.
Joint Investigation team to Interrogate
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) says a joint investigation team will interrogate General (retired) Pervez Musharraf regarding why Benazir Bhutto’s post mortem was stopped, whether the retired General threatened Bhutto in 2008 over the phone, and on whose authorization did the Interior Ministry conducted the press conference after Bhutto’s death.
Mark Siegel agrees to testify
The FIA has also contacted American journalist Mark Siegel, an important witness whom the FIA has requested to appear before a trial court to record his testimony. Sources add, that Siegel has agreed to the FIA’s request.
In Court today
Pervez Musharraf appeared before the ATC in Rawalpindi for his remand hearing under tight security. He is accused of conspiracy to murder former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who died in December 2007.
"We requested a three-day remand of retired general Pervez Musharraf and
judge Chaudhry Habib-ur Rehman gave a three-day remand and adjourned the case until Monday," prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told.
The formal application seeking physical remand of Musharraf had been submitted before the ATC on Thursday.
The ATC had also allowed the FIA to include Pervez Musharraf in the investigation of Benazir Bhutto murder case. Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar represented FIA and presented his arguments while Afshan Adil Advocate represented Pervez Musharraf.
After listening to the arguments, the court had allowed FIA to formally arrest Musharraf and include him in the investigation.
Musharraf is accused of involvement in a conspiracy to murder Benazir Bhutto, who died in a gun and suicide attack in December 2007. It is one of the three cases he is fighting in the courts since returning home last month after four years in self-imposed exile.
The soldiers, two of whom have been identified, are to be re-interred in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein near the northern town of Arras in a ceremony attended by relatives and Prince Michael of Kent.
Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard and Private Christopher Douglas Elphick were both killed during an attack by German forces near Bullecourt on the Hindenburg Line on the morning of May 15, 1917.
Their bodies were discovered with two other sets of remains in 2009 when a local farmer was clearing a field.
Pritchard, 31 at the time of his death, was identified by a silver identity bracelet, and Elphick, 28, by a signet ring bearing his initials.
A former chorister and head boy at St Paul's cathedral school, Pritchard had joined the HAC as a reservist in 1909 and was part of the first wave of British soldiers to be sent into action when war broke out in 1914.
Injured in 1915, he could have opted for a desk job in London but chose to return to France, surviving the horrors of the Somme in 1916 before being slain as he led his men into a battle in which they were almost all killed.
Elphick, an insurance clerk, had joined up in 1915 and arrived in France in November 1916, three months after the birth of his son, Ronald Douglas, who was to serve in the HAC during World War II.
Ronald Douglas's sons, Chris and Martin Elphick, are due to attend Tuesday's ceremony while the Pritchard family are to be represented by his nephew Harold Shell and great nieces Janet Shell and Jennifer Sutton.
Prince Michael, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, will be present in his role as HAC Royal Honorary Colonel.
The two sets of unidentified remains will be interred as "HAC soldiers known unto God."
It is understood DNA samples have been taken to enable positive identification of the unknown soldiers should any relatives come forward in the future. (AFP)
VIRGINIA: An American citizen of Pakistan origin has been arrested for allegedly issuing threats to County officials, Geo News reported here on Thursday.
According to reports, Saad Lodhi was taken into custody after being accused of issuing threats to County authorities.
According foreign media reports, Saad Lodhi started making threats after federal lawsuits he filed against Fairfax County were dismissed.
The reports said Lodhi sent threatening emails to several county officials.
(Source: Geo News)
The purpose of enemies of Pakistani society and its system had become clear over the past 24 hours as eleven explosions occurred in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, killing at least eleven people and injuring more than 60.
During the last 24 hours, seven bombs exploded in the capital of Balochistan. On Tuesday, String of blasts in Quetta challenged the writ of the government in which four people were killed.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a bomb went off at Sarki Gate in the provincial capital, Peshawar, leaving two people injured.
In Sindh, the death toll have reached to five while 15 were reportedly injured as a result of blast that took place on Tuesday near the election office of Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Karachi.
Prior to the aforesaid attacks, the election office and the electoral candidates of Awami National Party (ANP) were also targeted.
The nation has once again got an opportunity to elect their representatives after five years. The masses are determined to use their democratic right as missing the opportunity would make the terrorist victor who wanted to deprive the nation from using their right to vote.
(Source: Geo News)
According to the police, the unidentified assailants riding motorbike attacked a house near Bait ul Mukarram mosque with the hand grenade.
The police said that the attack was carried out at the house of a carpet shop owner. It further said that his shop was also assaulted with the grenade two weeks ago.
The sources said that the shop owner was demanded to pay extortion money, and over non-payment his shop and house were targeted.
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