A special court trying former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf under the high treason act directed the defence counsel on Tuesday to argue their miscellaneous applications and adjourned the hearing of the case till June 4.
The three-member bench headed by Justice Faisal Arab, comprising Justice Tahira Safdar and Justice Yawar Ali, resumed hearing of the high-profile treason case.
Prosecution Team Head Muhammad Akram Sheikh handed over 838 pages of investigation, intelligence and cabinet meeting reports to the defence counsel.
These documents included details of five-witness’ statements, which were missing in the initial report, and were submitted on the request of Musharraf’s lawyers.
Justice Arab said that the above-mentioned reports should have been given at least five days prior to the hearing.
Prosecutor Sheikh responded that it took time to get reports from the department concerned. Arguments regarding provision of the National Assembly record will be presented in the court today.
A plea was taken by Mushrraf’s attorneys that a resolution was passed in the National Assembly in favour of Musharraf’s November 3, 2007 action.
The court directed Musharraf’s counsel to argue on the applications regarding provision of the National Assembly record and names of government and army officials at that time. The defence team requested for a time of three days but the court rejected the plea and directed it to argue otherwise the defence team’s applications would be disposed.
It was stated in the Federal Investigation Report that former prime minister Shaukat Aziz’s last cabinet meeting was held on October 5, 2007 and the matter of emergency was not discussed in the cabinet meeting.