Opposition politician and former cricketer Imran Khan said on Saturday that President Pervez Musharraf has committed treason and should face the death penalty for declaring a state of emergency.
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Khan, a World Cup-winning Pakistan cricket captain, also called on the Pakistani people to resist Musharraf’s move and not to recognise the new chief justice appointed by the military ruler. “He has committed high treason by negating the orders of the Supreme Court which bars him from taking any unconstitutional steps and by sending in troops after the Supreme Court decision,” Khan told AFP. “He is punishable by death.” He added: “I urge every Pakistani not to recognise this phoney and collaborator chief justice. I urge the people, lawyers, civil society to resist this move by Musharraf. I urge lawyers to boycott the court proceedings.”
Musharraf replaced independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after invoking emergency rule and replaced him with judge Hameed Dogar. |