Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: FILE
The Sindh High Court (SHC) will take up a constitutional petition today seeking the removal of retired general Pervez Musharraf’s name from the Exit Control List, as he is facing trial for alleged high treason.
Barrister Farogh Naseem contested the federal government’s contention that his client would try to abscond, saying it is ‘patently presumptuous’.
The former president’s lawyer filed an affidavit in rejoinder to the comments filed by the federal government, saying that the SHC is fully empowered to resolve questions of facts in the writ jurisdiction. Barrister Farogh Naseem submitted that the Supreme Court’s interim order on April 8, 2013 no longer holds after the disposal of the petition and final order in which no observation has been made regarding continuity of petitioner’s name in ECL.
He also brushed aside the federal government’s contention that the Supreme Court’s orders could only be interpreted by the SC itself. The lawyer clarified that the petitioner (Musharraf) had appealed to the court to pass an order in consonance with the SC’s order.
Responding to the federal government’s stand that the petitioner imposed a state of emergency and a Provisional Constitution Order on November 3, 2007 of his own volition, Barrister Naseem submitted that the matter is being taken up after a lapse of seven years and documentation pertaining to the imposition of emergency has been ‘deliberately destroyed or misplaced’.
He submitted that the respondents’ contention regarding possible punishment to Pervez Musharraf has confirmed the government’s ‘desire to afflict capital punishment upon the petitioner’. The government is ‘bent upon seeking a conviction and is therefore fabricating evidence against Musharraf’, Naseem added.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2014.
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The days for the current government are numbered The court and the judges have to learn it now and stop delaying tactics which are not justice but politics
Please stop these dirty game of blaming Musharraf for every thing bad and delaying decision ofn his ECL case . Learn now otherwise remember " Allah ki lathi me awaz nahin "
Learn before we become Egypt and the current rulers and Judges be tried in Military courts and hanged!!
Musharraf Zinda bad!!
It is all rigging, fraud, lies, turning twisting of facts, blaming and accusing each other, since the time these fraud degree politicians got their chance to strengthen their so beloved "Democracy". None of them is just pushed whether people are getting atta, if so on what rates, security of the people, law and order situation, power generation, factories / business state. People have already started shouting and begging Army to save them from these Hinos and leaches. Heavy 'Balck Propaganda" against people like Musharraf, who are actually sincere and patriotic ahs launched to defame them, but people do remember his tenure and are looking forward to him. What should Army do under worsening situation? Should Army directly take over and relieve the people from their misseries ro should they form a government of technocrates under Musharraf, is a Million Dollar question?
Is Pakistan heading the way of Egypt ? I think the democratic government in place today has to grow up fast and look for the good things they can do for the people of the country. This slogan that all people are equal but some more equal than others has to end. And please leaders, stop your vulgar and expensive life style.
I am sure this government could hardly survive for a couple of more months. This time they will regret for whole life.
This pathetic government is repeating all of its cheap and ill acts. This personal vendetta will get them nowhere against the true and honest leader Pervez Musharraf.