Pakistan’s Top Court Summons Musharraf for Treason Hearing
Pakistan’s top court ordered former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to appear before judges tomorrow as they consider petitions seeking to prosecute the ex-general for treason, just weeks before he attempts a political comeback at a general election.
A two-member bench headed by Supreme Court Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja ordered Musharraf be summoned, Hamid Khan, a lawyer representing one of the petitioners, told reporters after today’s proceedings. The pleas aim to put Musharraf on trial over his decision to impose emergency rule in 2007. Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was deposed and kept under house arrest after Musharraf suspended the constitution.
A trial may reignite tension between the judiciary and the army in a country where generals behind three coups have never been punished before the law.
“Musharraf’s acts of 2007 have already been declared unconstitutional by the courts,” Taufiq Asif, a lawyer who has filed one of the petitions, said by phone yesterday. “He is guilty of high treason and must be arrested.”
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He is a fool for going back to Pakistan...
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