Army Act has no provision for treason: Prosecutor
Says former president Pervez Musharraf cannot be tried under it.
A supporter of Pervez Musharraf holds up posters bearing his image during a rally in Islamabad on January 15, 2014. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
The Army Act has no provision for treason and so former president Pervez Musharraf cannot be tried under it, prosecutor Tariq Sheikh told the media on Tuesday.
Sheikh was responding to Musharraf’s concerns related to special court’s jurisdictional power to conduct the high treason trial against him. His lawyers had requested that the treason case should be moved to military court as Musharraf was a military man when the alleged offence took place.
The former president faces treason charges under Article 6 for suspending, subverting and abrogating the Constitution, imposing an emergency in the country in November 2007 and detaining judges of the superior courts.
The 70-year-old was taken ill and rushed to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on January 2 when he was being transported under heavy guard to the special court. He has since been admitted in the hospital.
Musharraf’s name was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) to prevent him from leaving Pakistan until all cases against him are decided.
The Army Act has no provision for treason and so former president Pervez Musharraf cannot be tried under it, prosecutor Tariq Sheikh told the media on Tuesday.
Sheikh was responding to Musharraf’s concerns related to special court’s jurisdictional power to conduct the high treason trial against him. His lawyers had requested that the treason case should be moved to military court as Musharraf was a military man when the alleged offence took place.
The former president faces treason charges under Article 6 for suspending, subverting and abrogating the Constitution, imposing an emergency in the country in November 2007 and detaining judges of the superior courts.
The 70-year-old was taken ill and rushed to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on January 2 when he was being transported under heavy guard to the special court. He has since been admitted in the hospital.
Musharraf’s name was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) to prevent him from leaving Pakistan until all cases against him are decided.