ISLAMABAD: Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) has challenged Lahore High Court’s decision over forming a special court in the high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf.
During the hearing, the bar members requested the court to sustain the death sentence of Pervez Musharraf in the same case.
The bar members further claimed that the special court was formed as per law. LHC had not given any importance to the evidence provided by the prosecutor, the members added.
LHC last year canceled the formation of the special court which sentenced Pervez Musharraf to death in high treason case. The special court in November 2019 announced the verdict on Musharraf’s case and awarded him the death penalty.
Musharraf filed another petition against the establishment of a special court which declared him to be hanged till death.
Musharraf had been handed the death penalty in December last year after being found guilty on five counts in a 2-1 majority verdict with a dissenting note from one judge who said that instead of capital punishment, he should have been awarded life imprisonment for imposing emergency and forcibly confining over 60 judges to their residences in 2007.
The three-member bench of the special court headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and comprising Justice Nazar Akbar and Justice Shahid Karim announced the verdict.
The verdict which comprises 169 pages, stated that Justice Waqar Seth and Justice Shahid Kareem awarded death sentence to Musharraf while another member of the bench Justice Nazir Akbar had announced to set Pervez Musharraf free of the charges.
He was booked in a treason case in December 2013 under Article 6 of the Constitution as well as Section 2 of the High Treason Act for clamping the state of emergency on 3rd November 2007.
Musharraf, a 76 years old dictator was born in the old city of New Delhi in 1943, He was commissioned in Pakistan’s army in 1964, joining the officer corps and seeing action in the country’s 1965 and 1971 wars against India.
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