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Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Mohammad Akmal Khan has issued direction to the police station concerned to register an FIR against former president Pervez Musharraf for keeping judges of superior judiciary under house arrest. The Judge issued direction on a pending plea of Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Ghuman advocate. The judge in his short order remarked that the respondent was liable to be tried under various legal and criminal provisions. The judge maintained that former head of state had illegally detained seven judges of superior judiciary including Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry after proclamation of emergency on November 3, 2007. The judge directed the Secretariat SHO that the complainants statement should be recorded and the case registered against former president.
