Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: AFP
Akram Sheikh, the public prosecutor in Pervez Musharraf’s high treason case, filed on Tuesday an application seeking to cross-examine the president of the medical board of Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC).
He reiterated his objections to the medical report, which, he said, should be disregarded outrightly as it was evasive and contrary to the established practice in the field of cardiology.
“But if the court wishes to give any weight to this report, the prosecution requests for summoning at least the president of the medical board, Major General Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed, to cross examine him for the limited purpose of his findings and … to evaluate his report,” he noted.
He said the board – constituted by order of the special court on Jan 16 – had not answered the three questions posed by this court, adding that the report ran contrary to the medical practice in the field of cardiology not only in Pakistan but in most of the countries providing cardiac health care.
“Angiogram is an investigative tool to ascertain the exact diagnosis, and it is necessary to examine how many people suffered the anticipated […] problem at the AFIC during past few years [...] and how much weightage should or could be given to the ‘realm of possibilities’ found by the board of the AFIC,” he added.
He said it was necessary to expose before the court the total lack of professionalism displayed in making the report, which, he declared, ‘hollow’ and ‘devoid of substance’.
“The same [report] is also in complete and naked disregard of the professional integrity, the reputation and good name of the AFIC, which performs thousands of such procedure every month and that such hazard never came over in a single case.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2014.
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Is it not strange that the prosecutor has not named the coconsiparators but only Parvez Musharaf for the crime. The defense council is following the ICC trial of Karadzic and Mladic and using more or less the same plea of the accused illness. The accused is now under the protection of the military, which is a state within the state, and the military could reintroduce military rule any moment, if Nawaz Sharif does not play the ball.
Rex Minor
Those of who like Musharraf will like him more and those who hated him like Nora league. Hamid Mir, Kashif Abbasi and many will continue. A rose is a rose whether in a vase or in dirty water.
@Mohammad: True. (Tribune's motto: Take the Truth and Twist it).
This lawyer, who get paid by NS for other cases, knows more than heart specialist
since ET doesn't publish pro Musharraf comments, I have stopped my opinions on any article.
ET, you can publish anything you like and enjoying Freedom of Media, Thanks to Musharraf... but when other people use the same logic, you do not publish their comments.
Really Shameful!
Some people are overactive......???
What is the glorious nation coming to?
So the clash of institutions begin !!!
Mush's return was based upon his popularity on social media. He forgot that when not in power nobody comes out on the streets to even greet him let alone give their lives for him. Now he is in the security of his buddies and only wants to get out of the country. All the discussion about his health let alone the integrity of his medical report is useless. He does not want to appear before the court and has taken the plea that it is not constitutional. Even the 1973 constitution according to Mush's lawyers is not constitutional so there is no question of Pakistan as a country and him committing high treason. The brave commando is shattering the image of army officers worse than when they surrendered half of the country or housing OBL and his harem.