14 charges against Musharraf filed with the Supreme Court

Advocate AK Dogar files application in SC Lahore Registry seeking issuance of red warrants against former president.

LAHORE: Advocate AK Dogar has filed an application in the Supreme Court’s (SC) Lahore Registry seeking issuance of red warrants against former president Pervez Musharraf.

Advocate Dogar has asked the court to direct authorities to bring Musharraf back with the help of the Interpol to face trial under 14 charges.

One of those charges is subversion of the Constitution penalty for which is death.

Dogar’s main case against Musharraf is pending in the Supreme Court. Now, he has filed a criminal miscellaneous application adding a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) issued charge sheet of 14 charges.

On March 24, the SC asked the petitioner to add a prayer that was missing in the petition against the former president under Article 6 of the Constitution.

Advocate Dogar prayed that similar to the manner in which Hamesh Khan was brought back to stand trial in the Punjab Bank scam, Musharraf should also be brought back through the Interpol.

The petitioner stated that on October 1, 2010, close to 11 years after he threw out Nawaz Sharif’s elected government by a military coup, Musharraf has launched a political party and is making statements everyday that are intended to destabilise the country and the democratic government.

He said that PML-N has issued a charge sheet against Musharraf.

The charge sheet includes murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, killing hundreds of students of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, overthrowing an elected government, subversion of the Constitution and putting judges under house arrest and detention.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 14^th, 2010.