ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf has filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the special court’s verdict against him in the high treason case.
Salman Safdar on behalf of Pervez Musharraf filed a plea against the verdict of a special court, sentencing him to death. The appeal consisted of the 65-page.
The plea stated that dissatisfied with the decision of the special court on 17th December 2019as the court violated the Constitution 6 times in completing the treason case trial.
The Lahore High Court termed the verdict of the special court in the treason case against Musharraf illegal. The court in its verdict nullified the formation of the special court and declared it as unconstitutional and illegal.
The court remarked that giving a verdict in the absence of the accused is “illegal and unIslamic”.
Pervez Musharraf was awarded death in the high treason case sentence by the special court on 17th December.
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.
He rose swiftly through the ranks, and, in 1998, was appointed as army chief and later become the president of Pakistan.
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