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"Ms. Bhutto's assassination at an election rally in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007 was blamed by Mr. Musharraf's government on the Taliban.

A 2010 UN report said Benazir Bhutto's death could have been prevented and that Mr. Musharraf's government failed to provide enough protection - at the time his aides dismissed the report as a "pack of lies".

Ms. Bhutto was the daughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was himself executed in 1977 after being ousted in a coup. She was imprisoned shortly after that coup but went on to be twice elected prime minister.

In 2007 she came back to Pakistan after years abroad under a deal in which Mr Musharraf allowed her to return to take part in elections to be held in 2008.

But her assassination in a gun and bomb attack during the rally in Rawalpindi sparked massive protests and her Pakistan People's Party won a resounding victory in the polls allowing her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, to take up the presidency."

In a country where the military has controlled political power directly or indirectly for most of its 66-year history, no civil court has ever charged a service head with a political crime. The charges against Musharraf carry a maximum punishment of death.