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Special court to try Musharraf for treason in Dec
[Pak Daily Times] A special court will start functioning in the first week of December for the trial of former military ruler Gen (r)  Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on treason charges. The federal government on Monday issued a notification regarding appointment of Akram Sheikh as special prosecutor in the case but the lawyer could not obtain a copy of the notification. Akram Sheikh had also represented Mansoor Ijaz in the memo commission case, which was filed by incumbent Prime Minister  Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... in November 2011. Sheikh is known as a pro-judges lawyer and has appeared in several high profile cases, including those involving the Sindh High Court Bar Association, NRO and 18th Amendment. Sources told Daily Times that Pervez Musharraf was contacting senior lawyers, who had played a pivotal role in the lawyers' movement, to evolve a strategy for his case. Earlier, the Law Ministry on November 18 sent a one-page letter to the Supreme Court requesting the chief justice of Pakistain (CJP) to propose the names of judges for the special court. CJP Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, instead of deciding the names himself, asked the chief justices of all the high courts to nominate a judge of their respective courts. On receiving the names from all the high courts, the CJP sent them to the federal government for selection of three. Out of the five nominees, the prime minister nominated Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court, Justice Mohammad Yawar Ali Khan of the Lahore High Court and Justice Tahira Safdar of the Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court for the special court. A three-member bench on July 3, 2013, in view of the federal government's undertaking given on June 26, 2013, while disposing of the petitions that demanded registration of high treason case against Musharraf, directed the government to conclude the investigation without unnecessary delay. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-26 |
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