LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of writ petition by April 7 seeking trial of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on charges of high treason under article 6 of the constitution as lawyers did not turn up.
Interestingly, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Friday had rejected adjournment plea of federal government to adjourn case and observed that at least 16 adjournments had already been granted to the government but it failed to come up with a reply.
Justice Saeed had asked petitioner’s counsel A.K Dogar to continue his arguments but he did not appear on March 29. The court was hearing petition filed by Advocate Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi who leveled 15 allegations of different nature against the former military dictator. The lawyer alleged that the former army chief had dissolved an elected parliament without “any cogent reasons just to save his own skin.”
Recounting illegalities, Ghazi submitted that Gen (Retd) Musharraf had violated the constitution after he prevented judges of the Supreme Court and four High Courts from performing their judicial duties and detained Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry along with his children.
