Tag: Treason

    The incoming PML-N government is ready to try former president Pervez Musharraf over charges of treason, a party leader said on Tuesday. The caretaker government...

  While resuming hearing of the Musharraf treason case on Thursday, the Supreme Court remarked that explanation of Article 6 of the constitution would be...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned the hearing over the treason case against Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf until May 22, whereas an Anti Terrorism...

The government has made it clear that it will not punish the abrogators of the constitution and the courts do not want to put...

A special anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday extended the judicial remand of former president General (R) Pervez Musharraf till May 18 in the judge’s...

The Supreme Court on Monday resumed hearing in five petitions seeking framing of charges against former president Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 for abrogating...

The Supreme Court (SC) constituted a three-member bench to hear petitions seeking prosecution of former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf under the high treason...

SC says federation did nothing to form special court, nor did it authorise anyone to complain under Section 3 of High Treason (Punishment) Act Musharraf...

A petition was filed against Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s tour of India, alleging illegal use of taxpayers’ money for the tour and for...

Russia on Wednesday sentenced two professors from an engineering university to 12.5 and 12 years for handing over information about a new intercontinental missile...

Pleading justice for his brother Dr Shakil Afridi, sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the US get to Osama Bin Laden, Jamil...

India’s army chief on Thursday said the leaking of a damning letter he wrote describing the army as unfit to fight a war was...

Legal and constitutional experts have sought initiation of criminal proceedings under Article 6 against President Asif Ali Zardari for high treason if the truth...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday disposed of a petition regarding a treason case against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and directed the Interior Ministry and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to act on the matter according to laws. The SHC division bench comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Imam Bux Baloch announced the verdict on a constitutional petition filed by Syed Ataullah Shah Bukhari, pleading to launch a treason case against Musharraf

TEHRAN - Iran on Thursday accused two opposition leaders of treason and vowed to block their ability to communicate with their supporters on the eve of a pro-regime "hatred" rally against them in Tehran. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are under de facto house arrest but have regularly issued defiant messages to their supporters through their websites, including one which led to anti-government protests on Monday that left two people dead and several wounded.
The protests

ISLAMABAD - Dr Abdul Basit, counsel for two PCO judges of the Lahore High Court, pleaded in the Supreme court on Thursday for proceedings against former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf for high treason and that he be hanged for "his unconstitutional acts of November 3, 2007", which led to the ouster of over 60 judges of the superior courts.
A bench of Justices Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Jawwad S. Khawaja, Khilji Arif Hussain and Tariq Parvez, was hearing a contempt of

QUETTA - Jamhoori Watan Party's Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti on Monday strongly criticised former president Pervez Musharraf's polices for 'abrogating' constitution and starting military operations in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
Speaking at a news conference here, Talal blasted Musharraf for his recent interview with a private TV channel and it dubbed it as 'a pack of lies'. JWP leader said that Musharraf 'deserved' capital punishment for 'heinous crimes'