Ghazi murder case: Musharraf’s properties in capital attached, court told

Chak Shehzad farmhouse and plot in DHA were attached by a district and sessions judge

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad district administration informed a district and sessions court on Saturday properties belonging to former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf in the capital had been attached.

The move was made in compliance with court orders after Musharraf had been declared as a proclaimed offender and absconder in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdur Rashid Ghazi.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Pervaizul Qadir Memon had on September 17, 2016, directed the capital administration and police to attach Musharraf’s properties by seizure.

The Islamabad district administration, while filing a progress report, submitted before Memon on Saturday that the properties attached include Musharraf’s Chak Shehzad farmhouse and a plot in DHA.

Meanwhile, a hearing on an application filed by Haroonur Rasheed, Ghazi’s son, seeking red warrants against Musharraf, was adjourned till January 30.

Aabpara police had registered a murder case against Musharraf on the directions of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on September 2, 2013. He was implicated for the death of Ghazi during a military operation on the Lal Masjid in 2007.

The former president was arrested on October 10 and was granted bail by a sessions judge on November 4, 2013.

The court had declared Musharraf a proclaimed offender for his continued failure to appear before the court in the case and issued permanent arrest warrants against him on September 2016.

The former president has not returned to Pakistan after he left for ‘treatment’ abroad in March 2016. His lawyers have been telling the court that their client would return to the country and face cases against him after his medical treatment is complete.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 22^nd, 2017.