KARACHI: Pakistani Model, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz Award recipient Mehwish Hayat has raised her voice in defense of former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf.
Musharraf, who has been residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a while now, felt under the weather last week and was admitted to the hospital.
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The former ruler was set to undergo various tests in this regard.
Hayat took to social networking platform Twitter to vent her frustration over the treatment being meted out to the former president on social media.
Hayat asked her followers to leave politics aside when dealing with a sick man who wanted to be heard in court.
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“Let’s put politics aside for one moment. This man was our President & guided us through some every difficult times.
Like him or loathe him, he deserves the opportunity to be heard,” the actress wrote on Twitter in an apparently apolitical message that quickly went viral.
Let’s put politics aside for one moment. This man was our President & guided us through some every difficult times. Like him or loathe him, he deserves the opportunity to be heard. At least we can grant him that dignity.After all does the law not say”Innocent till proven guilty”? pic.twitter.com/ys2Sbyph64
— Mehwish Hayat TI (@MehwishHayat) December 4, 2019
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Yesterday Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf delivers his latest video message from American Hospital Dubai.
In the video message he stated that he is being victimized in the treason case and has also invited the commission to visit him to record his testimony.
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