Akbar Bugti. PHOTO: FILE
An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a request for exempting former president General Pervez Musharraf from attending hearings in Quetta.
Earlier, the counsel for Musharraf, submitted a request that the former president could not attend the hearings in Quetta due to security risks.
Justice Tariq Anwar Kasi of Anti Terrorism-I adjourned the hearing until November 16.
Sohail Rajput, lawyer of Jamil Bugti, Akbar Bugti’s son, argued that given the lack of efforts by the Crime Branch, investigations in the case were biased.
A Crime Branch investigator, however, said a letter had been sent to the federal government seeking arrest warrants of the former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Balochistan governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and former district coordination officer for Dera Bugti Abdul Samad Lasi.
Rajput said “Musharraf was attacked in Rawalpindi and Karachi, not in Balochistan,” he told the reporters. “It is pointless to say that he could not attend the hearing because of security risks.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2013.
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