Ex-Pakistan President Musharraf given death penalty in high treason case

The high treason trial of the former leader, who is currently in Dubai, for clamping the state of emergency on November 3, 2007,

Islamabad: In a first in Pakistan’s history, a three-member bench of a special court on Tuesday sentenced former President Pervez Musharraf to death in the long-drawn high treason case against him.

The high treason case was for clamping the state of emergency in 2007. The high treason trial of the former leader, who is currently in Dubai, for clamping the state of emergency on November 3, 2007,

Musharraf was indicted on March 31, 2014, and the prosecution had tabled the entire evidence before the special court in September the same year.

The special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, had announced that it would deliver its verdict in the case on Tuesday.

However, the government’s prosecutor, Advocate Ali Zia Bajwa, said that they had submitted three petitions.

One of the petitions asks that the court make three individuals former Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and former Law Minister Zahid Hamid suspects in the case.

Bajwa said: We want to make Musharraf’s facilitators and companions suspects as well. It is important that the trial of all suspects is held at the same time.

During the hearing, Musharraf’s counsel Raza Bashir also sought 15 to 20 days for his client to record a statement. “Musharraf deserves a right to fair trial,” he said.