Maryam says Musharraf has become ‘nishan-e-ibrat’

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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Friday Maryam Nawaz chastised former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf for saying Nawaz Sharif’s political future is over.

Former PM’s daughter, in a tweet, said: “This individual (Musharraf) had said the same thing even in the past as well, but today he has become nishan-e-ibrat [a symbol of disgrace].”

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi announced the verdict in the Benazir Bhutto murder case in August, acquitting five Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suspects and announcing 17-year imprisonment for two police officials.

The ATC also declared Musharraf an absconder in the case. The ATC had named Musharraf in the case in February 2011.

Musharraf returned from a life of self-imposed exile in Dubai and London in March 2013 in a disastrous bid to contest a seat in that year’s general elections. Only sparse crowds turned up to welcome him home at Karachi airport in a sign he had gravely overestimated his support.

He was swiftly de-barred from contesting any seats in a general election in which the party of his nemesis Nawaz Sharif swept the board.

And he became ensnared in a series of legal cases, including one alleging complicity in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Far more serious, however, was the decision by the government to set up a special court to try Musharraf for treason, not for his 1999 coup but for taking emergency rule powers in 2007.

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  1. SC will take The Godfather’s case to its logical end as SC has written in its order. The whole tubber will go to prison for a long time, this crook family political game is over forever. Maryam Nawaz Future is in prison and it’s not pretty in there

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