Former President retd General Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: AFP
A sessions court had sought a reply from the federation after an application for issuance of red warrants was filed by Haroon Rashid, the complainant. Islamabad Additional District and Sessions Judge Pervaizul Qadir Memon had directed the federation to submit a reply by January 21.
The court had declared Musharraf a proclaimed offender for his continued failure to appear before the court in the murder case and issued permanent arrest warrants against Musharraf in September this year.
The sessions court had also ordered Islamabad senior superintendent of police (SSP) as well as the deputy commissioner (DC) to seize all of Musharraf’s property and hold them under attachment until further orders by the court. The court had also confiscated surety bonds of Rs200,000 which had been submitted by Musharraf’s guarantors — Capt (retd) Nazir Ahmed and Jan Mohammad — when Musharraf was granted bail by a sessions court in November 2013.
Aabpara police had registered a murder case against Musharraf on the directions of the Islamabad High Court on September 2, 2013. The former president was arrested on October 10 and was granted bail by a sessions judge on November 4, 2013.
The court had issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Musharraf on February 20, and initiated the process to declare the former president a proclaimed offender in the case by issuing a proclamation on May 21 this year. The former president has not returned to Pakistan after he left ‘for treatment’ in March this year.
On December 22, the complainant filed an application in the court seeking directions for the ministry of interior to issue red warrants against Musharraf as well as his extradition to Pakistan through Interpol. The court has admitted the application for hearing and sought the federation’s reply on it by January 21.
Police and the Islamabad district administration also informed the court that Musharraf’s properties in Islamabad had already been attached after he was declared an absconder in a high treason case. The court, however, directed the police and administration to also attach Musharraf’s properties in the Ghazi murder case and submit a report by January 21.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 24th, 2016.
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