[Pak Daily Times] The PML-N government has decided to try Parvez Musharraf for imposing Emergency in November 2007, thereby ignoring the ones who took over the country through military takeovers.A press statement was issued on Monday.
He said the aim and purpose of Article 6 was to stop unconstitutional takeovers, and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution made abetment and validation of takeovers acts of high treason as well. "It is obvious that the current development of trying Musharraf for treason is a tactic to divert public attention from the meticulously planned sectarian killings," said the statement. "These killings themselves were an attempt to unleash mad religious frenzy to divide the working classes who are protesting on serious issues like inflation, unemployment and unconstitutional privatisation."
He said the PPP had sought the review of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent...
's judicial murder, which would have laid bare the doings of Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...and his military, political and judicial partners in subverting the constitution. "Unfortunately, the Supreme Court of Pakistain does not have the time to hear the reference."
Trial of Musharraf for the military takeover of October 12, 1999 would have exposed the back channel diplomacy between the military,
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...
and foreign countries, said the statement.