Summary Lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Musharraf will appear only if court ensures his security.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The special court has ordered former dictator Pervez Musharraf to appear before it on Friday, Dunya News reported.
Justice Faisal Arab, heading the three-member bench, resumed the case hearing today (Tuesday).
During case proceedings, senior lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri said Musharraf will appear only after the court ensures his client’s security.
Kasuri said in case anything happens to the former president the responsibility would be on the three judges of the special court.
On this, Justice Faisal Arab asked the counsel not to cross the professional limits.
Prosecutor Advocate Akram Shaikh, in his counter arguments, said they would take security responsibility after the court orders to detain Musharraf.
Justice Arab further said due to these security conditions arrest warrants for Musharraf could not be issued.
Subsequently, the hearing of the case was adjourned until tomorrow and the court summoned Musharraf to appear before it on Friday.
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.
