Pakistan Premier’s Kin Returns, Is Arrested
KARACHI, Pakistan — Police arrested Murtaza Bhutto, 39, the wanted younger brother of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, when he arrived in Karachi by air Wednesday after 16 years of self-imposed exile.
He is wanted in Pakistan on charges of leading an underground group accused of bombings in several cities and of hijacking a Pakistani airliner to Afghanistan and Syria in 1981 in which one man was killed. He has been living as a state guest in Syria for several years.
Murtaza Bhutto was elected to the assembly of the southern province of Sind in a general election Oct. 9 and must take the oath before Sunday or forfeit his seat.
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