A lawyer representing PakistanÂ’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said Sunday the retired general would not make a scheduled appearance at his treason trial on Monday because of an ongoing illness.| Told you so. He'll be sick until Uncle Fester is overthrown, and then he'll have a miraculous recovery... |
“Everyone is aware of his sickness. The whole world knows that he is in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and the court also knows that,” lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told AFP by telephone.
“We just have to make an oral request in the court that since he is not well, his presence should be dispensed with,” Kasuri said.
The ex-dictator spent his fourth day in the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi, the garrison city bordering Islamabad, on Sunday.
The court had adjourned its proceedings Thursday and summoned Musharraf to appear on Monday, but Kasuri said he hoped it would now “exempt his personal presence”.
“The court is not making a special concession to Musharraf. It is according to the law. Human life is over and above justice,” Kasuri added.
Doctors treating Musharraf had sent his medical reports to experts in Britain, Kasuri told AFP on Saturday, to determine his further treatment at home or abroad.
The ex-dictatorÂ’s sudden health scare was met with skepticism from