PAKISTAN'S former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, has been named as a co-accused in the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

Pakistan's Federal Investigations Agency has submitted a charge sheet to a specially convened anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi alleging the former president and two senior police conspired in Ms Bhutto's murder.

A senior prosecutor, Chaudhry Zulfiqar, told local media the charge sheet ''accuses the former president of abetment and conspiracy'' in the assassination of Ms Bhutto, killed by a suicide bomber in December 2007.

Mr Musharraf is accused of having her security detail removed just before the attack and of having evidence destroyed at the scene of the crime.

''We told the court the forensic evidence obtained from the cellphone of one of the two senior police officials already in custody points to Musharraf's involvement,'' Mr Zulfiqar said.