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ISLAMABAD: In compliance with the Supreme Court orders during hearing of a plea for registration of a second FIR in the Benazir assassination case, summons was pasted on the front wall of the residence of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Officials of the Rawalpindi police reached the model farm house number 1-C/B Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, which is the property of Gen Musharraf and pasted the summons.
The summons instructs the former president to ensure his presence at the Supreme Court on March 22.
Earlier, on Monday, the Supreme Court issued the summons while hearing the plea of Mohammad Aslam Chaudhry, one of the injured witnesses to the gun-and-bomb attack on Ms Bhutto on Dec 27, 2007. He was protocol officer of the PPP leader for 21 years.
The petitioner had challenged the rejection by the Lahore High Court of a plea for registration of the second FIR and sought initiation of criminal proceedings against Gen Musharraf and others for allegedly planning and executing the plot to assassinate Ms Bhutto. He has named as respondents former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, Interior Minister Rahman Malik, former law minister Babar Awan, then acting interior minister Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz, former director general of Intelligence Bureau Syed Ijaz Hussain Shah, former interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah and senior police officers of Rawalpindi.
The summons asks Gen Musharraf to “take further notice that you are required to bring your original identity card for the purpose of verification of your identity for entrance in the premises of the Supreme Court Building”.
