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ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has turned down former president Pervez Musharraf’s appeal against his death penalty in the high treason case.
During the hearing, the judge remarked that an appeal filed by the former president has been turned down unless the accused comes to the court himself.
The court ruled the remarks according to the ‘Order 23, Rule 8 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1980, that empowers the apex court not to accept any petition unless the convict surrenders himself to the authorities.’
The counsel of Pervez Musharraf notified that he would file another appeal soon against the registrar’s decision to return the petition.
Earlier on Friday, counsel Salman Safdar on behalf of Musharraf filed a plea against the verdict of a special court, sentencing him to death. The appeal consisted of the 65-page.
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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