Pakistani anti-terrorism court gives police two more weeks to arrest exiled leader Pervez Musharraf over ex-PM Benazir Bhutto’s assassination

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday gave police two more weeks to arrest exiled former president Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack, is living in London and does not intend to go back to Pakistan for any court hearing, his spokesman says.

Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad issued the arrest warrant on February 12 and reissued it a week later.

"Police requested the court for a month more time to implement the court order but the judge gave only two weeks," Malik Mohammad Rafique, one of the defense lawyers, told AFP. "Police also told the court that they have approached Pakistan's foreign ministry in this regard to serve the notice to his residence in UK."

The hearing took place in Adiyala prison, in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, and was adjourned until March 19.