The Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed the hearing of a treason case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, while the latter may not appear before the court.
A two-judge bench of the apex court, comprising Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, heard five identical petitions against the retired general seeking his trial under Article 6 of the Constitution for imposing the state of emergency in 2007.
Earlier on Monday, the bench had directed Musharraf to appear before it today (on Tuesday) to face charges of high treason and also barred him from leaving the country.
However, later on Monday evening, Musharraf’s Facebook account quoted him as saying that: “I have directed my panel of eminent lawyers to forcefully represent me in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tomorrow… These cases do not frighten me and I will fight all the cases in the court of law!”
The petitioners also sought trials of retired lieutenant generals Mehmood Ahmed and Muzaffar Usmani as well as retired major generals Aziz Ahmed, Shahid Aziz and Ghulam Mohammad for high treason because, according to them, they had abetted Musharraf in subverting the Constitution.
let the law take its own course.
try to take actions against general kiyani too at this moment as he was his right hand person while he was Active CE of Pakistan.Its better to nip the evil into bud at right time otherwise summoning kiyani after 10 years as we are doing with Musharraf would be worth just waste of time and money of Pakistan.
The apex court has to tread with caution. It is the aggrieved party in the case and has been forced by circumstances to sit on judgment in its own cause. Musharraf, a political nobody is totally isolated and comprehensively humiliated. The so-called forces of “rule of law” are out to get him. But in this charged atmosphere of revenge, the court has to take stock of the circumstances. Was Musharraf a lone-ranger or was supported by the entire government machinery in imposing emergency rule? Was this emergency rule resulting in sacking of judges a far graver crime than sacking of an elected government which was condoned by the judiciary? Article 6 has put the court in a difficult situation. These are indeed testing times for the honorable judges of the apex court. http://passivevoices.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/art…
It seems there is more of an egoistic bent then we originally thought. Decisions to Declare Emergencies are never one-man decisions; the entire government machinery is involved including the service chiefs; There is no judicial input whatsoever in these decision concerning National Security. If that is so, how come the SC can some years down the line declare that the circustances did not warrant this action. The ironic end result is that the country has been at war for the last so many years without even a formal declaration of emergency.
Waste of time. Pakistan has no need for these side-shows. The economy, poverty, terrorism, law and order and above all, towering corruption and run-away …. those are where Pakistan needs to act NOT persecuting a patriotic Pakistani.
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
PTI Khan
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