Bugti murder: ATC to issue arrest warrant, if Musharraf fails to apppear on April 21

QUETTA: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here on Monday again ordered that former president Pervez Musharraf be presented before the bench hearing the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case, Geo News reported.

The court has ordered that if Pervez Musharraf does not appear on the next hearing to be held on April 21, a warrant for his arrest would be issued, terminating his bail.

ATC Judge Tariq Anwar Kasi was hearing the Akbar Bugti murder case here.

During proceedings former federal interior minister, Aftab Sherpao and former provincial home minister, Shoaib Nausherwani were present in the court, however, the main accused in the case, Pervez Musharraf did not.

The bench has also ordered Pervez Musharraf’s guarantors to appear in court on the next hearing. It may be noted that the court has issued production orders five times. Additionally on the previous hearing the bench had ordered issuing arrest warrants for Musharraf’s guarantors as well

ECB did not see enough change to warrant any moves: Draghi

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank decided not to take any action at its meeting on Thursday because economic and monetary conditions had not changed enough to warrant it, ECB President Mario Draghi said.
The bank left interest rates unchanged but also failed, as many had expected, to suspend weekly operations to soak up money it spent on sovereign bonds at the height of the euro zone debt crisis, known as sterilisation.
"The suspension of sterilisation is one of the instruments that is in our list but we didn't see any development in the money markets that would lead to that unwanted tightening of monetary conditions that would justify the use of this instrument," Draghi told a news conference.
He also said a survey of conditions showed no major changes to prompt any moves.
"We saw our (economic) baseline by and large confirmed," he said. Pausing the so-called sterilisation of the Securities Markets Programme (SMP) would have added around 175 billion euros in liquidity to the market.