ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will hear the petition of former president Pervez Musharraf in which he had challenged his death sentence today.
Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed will hear the petition of Pervez Musharraf. He in his petition had challenged the verdict of a special court against him in the Supreme Court. The counsel of former president, Salman Safdar, on his behalf filed the appeal against the decision awarding death penalty to Musharraf in SC.
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.
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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