Mosharraf In Supreme Court Again
Pakistani lawyers called Thursday for Pervez Musharraf to face trial despite the country’s top judge appearing to rule out
initiating a case of treason against the former military ruler. The Supreme Court, headed by recently reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, is listening to an investigation into Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule that saw dozens of judges sacked two years ago.
The court said notice had been issued for Musharraf to appear in person or through a lawyer, but the ex-president ignored the summons — attending neither in person nor through counsel at sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. ‘He (Musharraf) suspended the constitution and the judiciary. All steps he took were to keep himself in power,’ senior lawyer Hamid Khan told the court. ‘All his actions should be declared null and void, and he should be declared a usurper,’ he said. Fellow senior lawyer Akram Sheikh asked the court to refer its investigation of general Musharraf to
This is called turn of history.Mosharraf did every illegal thing possible for him in his different capacities.The worst was his dealing with the constitution ( its suspension to suit his purpose ) and his dealing with the judges, sacking about sisty judges of the higher courts. However the Chief Justice has shown no agitation and has decided to proceed properly undet law.Musharraf should get the punishment due for him as a lesson for such people in Pakistan and elsewhere .In Bangladesh also we have a lesson in this.
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