RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The indictment hearings for seven men accused of assassinating former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were postponed for a fourth time Sunday.
In Rawalpindi, Judge Shahid Rafique put the hearings off until Nov. 5 because the lawyer for one of the defendants wasn't able to attend, Dawn News reported.
The court heard the lawyer had prior engagements with the national bar association and couldn't represent his client.
Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali lodged a protest, alleging stalling tactics, the newspaper said.
"Due to the delaying tactics, (Bhutto's) assassination case still remains undecided," he said.
Bhutto served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister as leader of the leftist PPP party.
She spent nine years living in self-exile in Dubai amid allegations of corruption before returning to Pakistan in October 2007 under an amnesty.
Two months later after a campaign rally, she stood up in her limousine to wave through the sunroof and was hit with a flurry of bullets as bombs went off around the vehicle.
