Musharraf treason case: Notification for special court issued
The three-member special court will initiate the hearing of treason trial against Pervez Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Ministry of Law on Wednesday issued notification of formation of special court to hear treason case against former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf.
A summary of three names was forwarded to the President for the approval after which the ministry issued the notification.
Earlier on Tuesday Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had approved three names for the special court.
Three-member special court headed by Justice Faisal Arab of Sindh High Court would initiate treason trial against former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of the constitution.
According to Secretary Law, the special court would be independent to continue its work and the ministry of finance would bear the expenses of this court.
It is worth mentioning here that the decision came after Musharraf was granted bail in other cases against him, stoking rumours a deal for his departure could be imminent.
The former general applied last week to be removed from the government s "exit control list" that stops him leaving Pakistan, to go to visit his sick mother in Dubai.
On Monday a court adjourned a hearing into his travel ban after the government s attorney-general failed to attend court.
The treason accusation relates to Musharraf s decision in 2007 to impose emergency rule shortly before the Supreme Court was due to decide on the legality of his re-election as president a month earlier while he was still army chief.
Musharraf overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif -- elected to power again in May this year -- in a bloodless military coup in October 1999, but a year later the Supreme Court validated the take over.
During the 2007 emergency rule he suspended the constitution and parliament, and sacked top judges who declared his actions unconstitutional and illegal.
Musharraf technically became a free man this month when an Islamabad district court granted him bail over a deadly raid on a radical mosque in the capital in 2007.
But faced with Taliban threats to his life, he has remained under heavy guard at his villa on the edge of Islamabad.
