Former president Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: REUTERS/ FILE
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court in Quetta rejected the bail plea of former dictator Pervez Musharraf in the Akbar Bugti murder case, Express News reported on Tuesday.
On June 10, non-bailable arrest warrants were issued by the court against Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz in the case.
The arrest warrants were issued due to their repeated absence from the court. The former governor of Balochistan, Owais Ghani and former deputy commissioner of Dera Bugti, Samad Lasi were also included in the list of issued arrest warrants.
Baloch nationalist leader Bugti was killed in a cave on August 26, 2006 during a military crackdown ordered by Musharraf. Bugti was the chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party and an influential tribal chief who controlled the gas-rich district of Dera Bugti.
Judges detention case
The Islamabad High court accepted Musharraf's request for bail in the illegal detention of the judges' in 2007 case.
He is required to pay Rs0.5m as a surety bond to the court.
Musharraf is already under house arrest at his Chak Shahzad farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad after the Islamabad High Court approved his trial.
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What a joke. He has been in house arrest and the Balochistan police had gone and questioned him there. So how can the Balochistan judiciary order arrest based on "continued absence"? The fact that a president cannot be prosecuted for military actions (even though he did not order the killing of Bugti) makes no difference for these judges. Mockery of law and justice! My question is what is the current military leadership doing to stop this injustice? Unless this is controlled every general will be in jail after retiring, and imagine the morale of the military taking actions to control militancy against Pakistan.
@Mohammad: This is a very pertinent question which all the military officers must seek from their superiors. I would go a step further and ask the COAS to either emded the Judges in the operations or refuse to expose yourself to danger of enemy and judicial humiliation. Such funny steps can be taken by Judiciary, once you cave in.
There are many more who should be departed to cleanup the mess in Pakistan.
Is he in jail or not? I don’t know what this order stands for. May be someone making name for himself.
Bravo! Another nail in the coffin of military adventurism and military arrogance
All have lost hopes for my country.
We are letting terrorists free and punshing those who saved Pakistan.
and when the Military crackdown ordered by Musharraf ..ET? Now Army Chief is ordering operations in different Part of the Pakistan, will the court prosecute him once he retired?
Saviour of Pakistan cannot save himself? What a conundrum???