Gul and his cousin, identified only as Rafaqat, were arrested recently. Other suspects include a 15-year-old boy Aitezaz Shah and two others, Sher Zaman and Abdul Rasheed, who supplied arms to the attacker, identified as Saeed alias Bilal.

Majeed said earlier that police were still looking for another man, Ikramullah, who had been assigned to attack Bhutto if she escaped the first blast.

Shahbaz acquitted

LAHORE: A Pakistani court acquitted Shahbaz Sharif, the brother of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, on Saturday in a case of unlawful killing, paving the way for him to contest a by-election, his lawyer said. Shahbaz Sharif is expected to become chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s richest province and home to half its 160 million people, where their Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party won in the legislative elections. With the legal case cleared, Shahbaz Sharif can contest a by-election.

Both Sharif brothers, Nawaz, the prime minister President Pervez Musharraf ousted in a 1999 coup, and his politician brother Shahbaz, were barred for legal reasons from standing in the February 18 polls, in which their party came second.

A court in the city of Lahore acquitted Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday over accusations of involvement in the extra-judicial killing of five militants in 1998, when he was the chief minister of Punjab province.

The court ordered Sharif’s acquittal after the complainant, Saeed-ud-Din, the father of one of the men killed, withdrew his case against Sharif, his lawyer, Imtiaz Kafi, told Reuters.