By DPA
Islamabad : A Pakistani high court Tuesday ordered the government to cancel “red notices” issued through Interpol against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for alleged corruption.
The international police organisation issued the notices in 2006 after a Pakistani court found Bhutto guilty of misleading election authorities and concealing assets.
But it took no further action against the politician, who has lived in exile in London and Dubai since 1998.
Bhutto, 54, served twice as premier in the 1980s and 1990s. She remains Pakistan’s most prominent opposition politician and was recently said to be in power-sharing talks with the country’s embattled president, Pervez Musharraf, who will seek re-election by parliament in the autumn.
The interior ministry in Islamabad was expected to formally notify Interpol of the withdrawal of the red notices following the court ruling.
However, Bhutto is still liable to face charges in Pakistan over the alleged misappropriation of millions of dollars with her husband during her tenure.
While she has declared her intention to return to Pakistan in the coming months, Musharraf said again Monday that neither Bhutto nor another exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif would be allowed home soon.