First time in Pakistan's history coup-making general has to answer charges
Asia Program Public Policy Scholar Farahnaz Ispahani was interviewed on Voice of Russia regarding charges leveled on former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has been indicted on three charges over the 2007 assassination of the country’s opposition leader and Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Prosecutors say that he is accused of murder, criminal conspiracy to murder and facilitation of murder. The offence carries the death penalty or life imprisonment.
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Farahnaz Ispahani
Public Policy Scholar;
Senior Fellow, Religious Freedom Institute
Senior Fellow, Religious Freedom Institute
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