A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, court officials said.

Musharraf had been accused of failing to provide security to Benazir Bhutto, who died in a suicide attack in December 2007.

In spite of the Anti-Terrorism Court's release order, Musharraf will remain in detention as he has also been arrested in another case of keeping judges in illegal confinement when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.

The former president has been kept at his Islamabad house over security concerns and his house has been declared sub-jail.

Musharraf returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-exile to take part in elections and to run election campaign for his All Pakistan Muslim League party.

He is facing several serious criminal cases. Lawyers have petitioned the Supreme Court to put him on trial for treason for imposing emergency and he also faces charges over the death of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation.