A provincial review board comprising three judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday adjourned until February 19 the matter of further detention of five persons acquitted by an anti-terrorism court in Benazir Bhutto's murder case as law officer failed to appear before the board. The police produced the detainees before the review board and sought extension in the detention. The Punjab government had detained them soon after their release by the Rawalpindi's trial court in the murder case of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The acquitted persons Rafaqat Hussain, Sher Zaman, Hasnain Gull, Abdul Rasheed and Aitzaz Shah allegedly belong to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The board on November 28, 2017 had extended their detention for 90 days.
Besides acquitting these five men, the trial court had declared former president General Pervez Musharraf (retd) an absconder in the case and awarded 17-year imprisonment each to two senior police officers Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad for showing negligence in security arrangements which led to assassination of Benazir Bhutto outside Liaqat Bagh of Rawalpindi.
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