Pakistani anti-terrorism court declares Musharraf a fugitive in ex-PM Bhutto’s murder trial

Pakistan’s former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. (AFP)
Updated 31 August 2017
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Pakistani anti-terrorism court declares Musharraf a fugitive in ex-PM Bhutto’s murder trial

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial, ordering his property confiscated, a court official said Thursday.
Musharraf was charged with Bhutto’s 2007 assassination in 2013, but has been in self-imposed exile in Dubai ever since a travel ban was lifted three years later. The official said he had “absconded.”


Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

Updated 11 March 2026
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Sri Lanka court orders 84 Iranian sailors’s bodies be handed to Iran embassy, local media says

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court ​has ordered that the bodies of 84 sailors killed in an attack ‌on an Iranian ‌warship ​off ‌the ⁠island ​nation’s coast ⁠last week be handed over to the embassy of Iran, ⁠local media ‌reported ‌on Wednesday.
The warship, ​IRIS ‌Dena, was ‌hit by a torpedo from a US submarine in ‌the Indian Ocean while it ⁠was ⁠returning from a naval exercise organized by India, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.