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19:14, 31-Aug-2017
Five cleared of killing ex-Pakistani PM Bhutto, Musharraf declared ’absconder‘
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Five suspects were acquitted of attempting to murder former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, on Thursday.
The court cited a lack of evidence as the cause for the verdict.
Two police officers, however, were sentenced to 17 years for negligence in failing to prevent the killing.
Former President Pervez Musharraf, also a suspect in the case, was declared an "absconder" by the court.
Bhutto was a female politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. On December 27, 2007, she was assassinated in a shooting and suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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