NEW DELHI, July 30 (RAPSI) - A special Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan will charge former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 murder of deceased prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the local media reports.

Musharraf was told to appear before the court in person on August 6. Currently he remains in his Chak Shahzad home near Islamabad under house arrest.

Bhutto was assassinated in a bombing during a pre-election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. The charges against Musharraf are based on the testimony of the city's former chief of police, who told the investigators that Bhutto's guards had been called off duty on Musharraf's orders.

Along with the murder of Bhutto, Musharraf has been charged with the illegal arrests of Supreme Court judges during a state of emergency in 2007, as well as with the murder of Baloch Tribe nationalist leader Akbar Khan Bugti.

On April 18 the court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf as part of the State of Emergency case and placed him under house arrest. Later, he was also placed under formal arrest over the Bhutto murder case.