Lahore, Sep 1 - The Lahore High Court has summoned former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and 10 others in a case relating to the Dec 27, 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Among others, judge Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry summoned to appear Sep 28 are Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan and then Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi, Online news agency reported.

The summons was issued on a petition contending that these individuals were involved in the gun and bomb attack that killed Bhutto as she left a political rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi adjacent to Pakistani capital Islamabad and that a first information report should be registered against them.

Judge Asif Saeed Khosa had earlier refused to hear the petition when it was presented before him.

To go by his track record, Musharraf, who is currently in Britain on a lecture tour, is unlikely to respond to the summons. In July, he did not respond to a Supreme Court summons while it was hearing a petition on legality of the emergency Musharraf had imposed Nov 3, 2007. The court later ruled that his action was unconstitutional.

Pakistan's investigations into Bhutto's killing, as also one by Scotland Yard, failed to make headway largely because the spot where Bhutto was attacked was hosed down soon after the incident, destroying whatever evidence might have existed.