Musharraf should be tried according to a timeline, says Asma

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Former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir on Saturday said that if Pervez Musharraf had to be prosecuted under treason charges, then double standards should be shunned and the trial should be conducted according to a definitive timeline.

“We have to set history right. We must not pursue double standards and we have to maintain a balance in all issues. We have to cleanse filth and have to cleanse it from the time it crept in,” she said in an interview to a private TV channel.

“If someone enters a home by breaking off the door, opens the fridge and eats something, then we have to see first the offence of breaking off the door. We are not authorised to take action by leaving aside the major offence,” she said.

The judiciary should give verdicts by keeping in view its dignity, law and the Constitution rather than media reports, she stressed.

Furthermore, the firebrand lawyer said that Nawaz Sharif should focus on sorting out the problems instead of trying Pervez Musharraf.

“The government should give more importance to the problems in Karachi and Balochistan and energy crisis,” she said.

 

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  1. .
    Your legal position is correct …
    But aren't you interested in a 'law of convenience' to get the bad guy down ???
    I am sure you hate him as much as I do …
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