<p><br /> A Pakistan court has issued an arrest warrant for exiled former president Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mrs Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi in December 2007, weeks after she returned to Pakistan after years in self-imposed exile.<br /> </p><p><br /> Her assassination was one of the most shocking events in Pakistan's turbulent history and remains shrouded in mystery.<br /> </p><p><br /> A spokesman for Mr Musharraf said: "The court has issued an arrest warrant and asked that he should be produced before the court during the next hearing on February 19."<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Musharraf has repeatedly dismissed suggestions he, the security agencies or military were involved in killing his old rival.<br /> </p><p><br /> The former military chief came to power in a bloodless coup in 1999 but has lived in self-imposed exile since he stepped down under threat of impeachment in 2008. He spends most of his time in London and Dubai.<br /> </p><p><br /> He has expressed his intention to return to Pakistan and said he aimed to establish offices for his new political party by March.<br /> </p><p><br /> The warrant for his arrest follows a similar court order in December for the arrest of two senior police officers on allegations they failed to provide adequate security for Mrs Bhutto before her assassination.<br /> </p><p><br /> A report by a UN commission of inquiry released last year said any credible investigation into the killing should not rule out the possibility that members of Pakistan's military and security establishment were involved.<br /> </p><p><br /> It heavily criticised Pakistani authorities, saying they had "severely hampered" the investigation. The initial investigation blamed a Pakistani Taliban leader and al-Qaeda ally, Baitullah Mehsud, for Bhutto's murder.<br /> </p>
