Ghazi murder case: Court reserves verdict on plea to declare Musharraf an 'absconder'
Additional Session Judge Pervez-ul-Qadir Memon heard the plea against Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – A local court on Saturday reserved its decision on a plea to declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf an ‘absconder’ in Ghazi Abdul Rashid murder case, Dunya News reported.
Additional Session Judge Pervez-ul-Qadir Memon heard the plea.
During the case hearing, Musharraf’s guarantors Nazeer Ahmed and Jan Muhammad appeared in the court and submitted their replies on show-cause notices.
Police also submitted a report regarding Musharraf’s arrest warrant, stating that teams went to Islamabad farm house and Karachi residence of the accused but couldn’t find him there.
The report further states that Pervez Musharraf has left the country.
Meanwhile, plaintiff’s lawyers appealed the court to declared Musharraf an ‘absconder’.
The court has reserved its decision on the plea till May 17.
It may be mentioned here that a non-bailable warrant was issued against the former president in February in connection with the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.
The cleric‘s family filed a case in 2013 against Musharraf over his alleged involvement in the killing of Rashid during a 2007 operation when military commandos stormed the mosque in the heart of Islamabad on Musharraf s orders.
