Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf arrives at the European Parliament in Brussels in this January 21, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/Files
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A court in Pakistan charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army.
The indictment of the army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup - once Pakistan's most powerful man - was almost an unthinkable event in a nuclear-armed country ruled by the military for half of its 66-year history.
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