Musharraf’s counsel filed the bail plea in Balochistan High Court after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta rejected his application.
A two member bench comprising Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mengal and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan resumed hearing on the application today.
The court ordered crime branch to complete investigation into the case at earliest and present a
challan in the court.
The court reserved its judgment over the application after hearing arguments of Akbar Bugti’s song Jamil Akbar Bugti and lawyer Sohail Ahmed Rajpoot.
On July 15, an anti-terrorism court in Quetta directed police to produce Musharraf by July 30.
Police presented initial chargesheets to the ATC, saying the former president could not be presented due to security threats.
Musharraf has been accused of orchestrating murder of Bugti, the chief of his tribe, who was killed in military operation in 2006 when he was army chief and President of the country.
Musharraf has refused to accept the charge of murder saying that Bugti was not killed by the army but died after a mysterious explosion in the cave where he was hiding. The blast reportedly occurred when a team of army officers invited to negotiate Bugti's surrender entered the mountainous hideouts. All of them were buried alive when the cave collapsed.
Former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has also been accused in the alleged murder.
Musharraf has been detained in his house near Islamabad since April. He faces several criminal cases including the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The former president returned in March after about four years of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai. He assumed power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and resigned in 2008 after his supporters were defeated in elections.
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