Summary The judges had set March 11 as the date to indict Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – After Interior Ministry’s warning of possible terrorist attack, former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has decided not to appear before special court in the high-profile treason case on Tuesday, Dunya News reported.
The Ministry of Interior on Monday expressed the possibility of an attack on the ex-military ruler by his own security personnel.
The letter stated: “It seems terrorists have sympathisers in the security/cavalcade of retired General Pervez Muharraf to assassinate him. The plan may materialise either on the routes using IED (improvised explosive device) and VBIED (vehicle-bound IED) or inside/outside the court similar to the way in which Salman Taseer was assassinated.”
In 2011, Mr Taseer, the then governor of Punjab, was gunned down by one of his security guard in the Kohsar Market of Islamabad.
Musharraf went to the top of the Taliban hit list after ordering the army in 2007 to storm the Red Mosque in Islamabad. The operation left more than 100 people dead and opened the floodgates to attacks in Pakistan.
The judges had set March 11 as the date to indict Musharraf, who was ordered to appear in person in the treason case to hear the charges being read out against him.
Musharraf is facing treason charges, which can carry the death penalty, over his imposition of a state of emergency in 2007 while he was president.
The trial is being conducted at the National Library, which is within the Red Zone that houses important buildings like the Prime Minister's House, parliament and Supreme Court and the Diplomatic Enclave.
