Fallen dictators can be pitiful figures, never more so than when they return from exile expecting universal adulation – only to find themselves bundled into the nearest courtroom or prison cell. General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s deposed military ruler, suffered this indignity yesterday when he was hauled before a judge in Rawalpindi and formally charged with organising the murder of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister.
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