Following the global phenomenon of people hurling shoes at personalities they do not like, the occurrence came to Pakistn on Friday when former army chief and president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf escaped a shoe-hurling episode at the Sindh High Court.
The incident occurred when Musharraf arrived at the SHC to get his bail extended in three separate cases.
The court allowed a two-week extension in his bail.
However, the court restrained the former military ruler from leaving Pakistan without permission. Angry lawyers protested and chanted slogans against Musharraf when he appeared in court, and one of them threw a shoe at him as he walked to a court room for appearance.
A group of around 20 lawyers had gathered to protest against the former military ruler at the Sindh High Court building, shouting “he’s a dictator and he should be hanged” before one of them hurled the shoe, according to witnesses.
The shoe did not hit Musharraf, TV footage showed. Witnesses said the perpetrator was taken away by plainclothesmen.
Musharraf, who has returned to the country after a four-year of self-imposed exile to contest general elections, has been implicated in three high-profile cases and faces arrest.
A single-bench of the SHC of Chief Justice Mushir Alam extended Musharraf’s transitory bail for 15 days in the case of ‘illegal confinement’ of 62 judges after he declared a state of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.
Separately, a divisional bench of the court headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah granted bail extension for 21 days to Musharraf in the other two cases in which he was facing non-bail-able arrest warrants.
The cases involve the murder of former governor and chief minister of Balochistan Nawab Akbar Bugti in August 2007 and the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun-and-bomb attack in Rawalpindi in December 2007.
So what have the shoe throwers proved—that they are copy cats. Unfortunately they happen to be lawyers and they demand death sentence for Musharraf without giving him a fair trial. I am sure they have acheived their moment of fame. When the legal profession shows such behaviour what can you expect from the rest. I am glad the judges behaved better otherwise there would have been a kangroo court! I salute Musharraf,s courage in submitting himself to the mercy of law.
Well for one thing it shows some one got courage to show the nation how the dictator should be treated when law allow them. This is just a preview of things to come.
I do hope After PTI wins. PTI holds all MNA From All corrupt parties accountable for stealing Public Funds to build their bank balance and hold these idiots responsible for Abusing their power
Hey moron,you think all the PTI MNA's came from MARS ? they were at some point part of the corrupt gang,sorry government.They left because they were promised a better or bigger part of the pie.Oh and guess what,PTI ain't winning fool, hate to say it but I see fat boy Nawaz as the PM,somene from PPP the President and I do see Imran Khan as the opp. party so I believe its going to be a coalition.
Mushraff must release his tax returns for the last fifteen yrs.
This way everybody could see how much money he made?
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