Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. – File Photo

RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Saturday rejected the appeals filed by former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad for their effective exoneration from the Benazir Bhutto murder case, DawnNews reported.

Justice Shahid Rafiq heard the proceedings of the case in Adiyala Jail.

Aziz and Khurrum, in their appeals, had pleaded to the court that there were no sufficient proofs against them in the case and therefore they should be exonerated.

During the previous hearing, the court had reserved its verdict after hearing the arguments of the defence and prosecution lawyers with regard to the appeals.

Aziz and Shahzad have been accused of showing negligence in security arrangements for former premier Benazir Bhutto which resulted in her assassination at Liaquat Bagh.

Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, weeks after she returned to Pakistan after years in self-imposed exile.

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