A three member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, took up the high treason case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf today and handed him the death sentence.
“Pervez Musharraf has been found guilty of Article 6 for violation of the constitution of Pakistan,” government law officer Salman Nadeem said.
Musharraf, who is currently residing in Dubai was indicted in high treason case on December of 2013 for imposing the state of emergency on Nov 3, 2007.
He was indicted on March 31, 2014. However, due to continuous appeals the trial of the former military dictator lingered on and he left Pakistan in March 2016.
Special court comprising of Justice Seth, Justice Nazar Akbar of the Sindh High Court (SHC) and Justice Shahid Karim of the LHC had announced that it would deliver its verdict in the case today, the government's prosecutor, Advocate Ali Zia Bajwa, said that they had submitted three petitions today.
One of the petitions asks that the court make three individuals former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Supreme Court chief justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and former law minister Zahid Hamid to held suspects in the case for facilitating the former military ruler.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government requested the Islamabad High Court that “the special court be restrained from passing final judgement in the trial.
