Former president Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
An application on Musharraf’s behalf was also presented in the court, which stated that the former president cannot appear before the bench due to security concerns. The court exempted Musharraf from appearing in one hearing.
The court adjourned the hearing till June 1, and also put off hearing a bail application by Musharraf until May 22.
On Friday, the main complainant in the case disassociated himself from the case, saying it was in the better interest of the country.
The retired general also faces legal cases over the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2006 death of Akbar Bugti.
Musharraf returned from exile in March to stand in the May 11 general election, vowing to “save” the country from militancy and economic collapse but he was barred from running over charges dating back to his 1999-2008 rule.
Musharraf is currently in police custody at his farm house in Chak Shehzad following his arrest on April 19, in an unprecedented move against a former army chief of staff ahead of key elections.
He was arrested for making a decision to sack judges when he imposed emergency rule in November 2007 — a move that hastened his downfall.
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Simply a case of revenge. Nothing will happen. He will move out of the country before oath taking of the PM. Ready to bet with any one.
@English: You do matti-pao after signing a muk-muka....lol
@English: It's kind of similar to but not exactly like: "bury the hatchet" "Bury the hatchet is an American English colloquialism meaning "to make peace." The phrase is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of putting away the tomahawk at the cessation of hostilities among or by Native Americans in the Eastern United States, specifically concerning the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cached in time of peace." W
Mukmuka is a Punjabi word used by us Pakistani Punjabis when there's an agreement whereby: If you condone my misdeeds, I'll condone yours. Forget the weaker stakeholders.
Finito. Khalaas.
What is matti pao?
Slowly but surely things are moving in the direction of the well-tested 'ailing-mother-in-dubai' alibi which will allow Musharraf to take a one-way flight out of Pakistan. I think 'matti pao' should become Pakistan's official motto emblazoned on the national flag in large fonts.
When the complainant has withdrawn in national interest, then why the remand?
General Jorge Videla, Argentina's dictator at the height of its "Dirty War" against leftist activists, died Friday in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla had launched a ferocious crackdown on leftists and suspected supporters when he took power in 1976.As many as 30,000 people were kidnapped and "disappeared" by the military and suspected regime opponents were swept into secret prisons, tortured and murdered. While the same circumstances; kidnapping, disappearing, torturing and murdering (Lal Masjid, Akbar Bugti, bombing on FATA, Balochistan and Karachi) has been going on in Pakistan for last decades based on fake propaganda war on terror and writ of the government But no one has been punished yet?