Former President and General Pervez Musharraf has been formally charge-sheeted by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
ATC judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman also indicted six others accused in the case. They are former police officers Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad, Hasnain Gul, Rafaqat Hussain, Sher Zaman and Abdul Rasheed.
The court has set the next hearing for 27 August 2013.
The former president came in the court under tight security because of threats to him by the Pakistani Taliban.
The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA), investigating the murder, had submitted a chargesheet against Musharraf in the ATC in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad.
The FIA presented a four-point charge-sheet against Musharraf in the ATC, accusing him of hatching a conspiracy in connection with the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
The charge sheet submitted contained the statements of four witnesses, including an American journalist, Mark Siegel, as well as Benazir's own statement.
FIA officials said that the charge-sheet has been prepared on the basis of Mark Siegel's statement, who had claimed that Musharraf called and threatened Benazir when he was sitting with her.
Mark Siegel, who once served as lobbyist for Benazir Bhutto in the US, had also stated that Benazir had told him that Musharraf would be responsible for any harm to her.
He had earlier stated that he was with Benazir Bhutto in London when Musharraf denied the allegations.
The charge-sheet stated that the statement of the American established Musharraf as the prime accused in Benazir's murder. It also leveled terrorism accusations against the former president. The document stated that Musharraf has failed to prove his innocence in the case.
Musharraf, who was president during the murder of Benazir Bhutto, has rejected the charges. His lawyer Afsha Adil says the evidence against Musharraf is fabricated and politically-motivated.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack and firing in Rawalpindi Dec 27, 2007, after she addressed an election campaign rally.
(with inputs from IANS)
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