Islamabad,
Pakistan’s former dictator Pervez Musharraf was today declared a fugitive by an anti-terrorism court, which ordered seizure of his property and sentenced two senior police officers to 17 years in jail in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, nearly 10 years after her assassination.

Bhutto, the Pakistan People’s Party chief and a two-time Prime Minister, was killed along with more than 20 persons in a gun and bomb attack in Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh during an election rally on December 27, 2007. She was 54.

The case was registered soon after her assassination.The trial, that went through many ups and down, concluded in Rawalpindi yesterday. Judge Asghar Khan announced the verdict, declaring Musharraf a proclaimed offender and ordering seizure of his property.

Musharraf, 74, has been living in Dubai since last year when he was allowed to leave Pakistan on the pretext of medical treatment. The judge sentenced former Rawalpindi CPO Saud Aziz and former

Rawal town SP Khurram Shahzad — the two suspects out on bail — to 17 years in prison and

fined them Rs 5 lakh each. They were present in the court today.

Five Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suspects have been acquitted for lack of evidence. The suspects were arrested soon after the assassination. They had denied the charges all along.

The trial of five suspects started in 2008, while Musharraf, Aziz and Shahezad were implicated in 2009 after a fresh probe by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

“Ten years later and we still await justice. Abettors punished but those truly guilty of my mother’s murder roam free,” Bhutto’s daughter Aseefa Bhutto Zardari tweeted. “There will be no justice till Musharraf answers for his crimes,” she added.

Bhutto’s another daughter Bakhtawar tweeted: “Musharraf ordered crime scene washed & doors locked trapping SMBB vehicle inside.”