A Pakistan court has ordered that former President Pervez Musharraf's property be seized and his bank accounts frozen in connection with the legal case concerning the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The order was issued Saturday at a hearing in Rawalpindi, the city where Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack on Dec. 27, 2007.
Musharraf was charged in the case earlier this year, but he left the country in 2008 and has been living in exile in London and Dubai.
During the hearing, the judge ordered that all of Musharraf's property be seized for failing to respond to subpoenas.
Musharraf's government had accused the Taliban and al Qaeda of being behind the plot to kill his political rival.
A U.N. report suggested that Pakistani authorities had deliberately failed to effectively investigate the killing, but it did not say who it believed was responsible for her death.
A spokesman for Musharraf said the court's ruling was "politically motivated." (NyTimes)
