The hearing has been adjourned until February 17, 2015. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD: A special court on Thursday rejected the government's request to try former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf alone in a high treason trial, Express News reported.
In an earlier hearing, the court had argued that all co-abettors and collaborators involved should be tried alongside Musharraf, while the prosecutor argued that Musharraf alone should be tried in the case.
There is widespread belief that the idea for the treason trial came from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's personal vendetta against the former ruler, who in 1999 ousted him from power through a military coup, put him behind bars for a short period and forced him into exile.
Prior to the initiation of the trial, the government formed a three-member joint investigation team (JIT) of Federal Investigation Agency for investigation.
The JIT has questioned and probed several abettors and collaborators to find their roles, whether direct or indirect, in the imposition of the November 3 emergency rule imposed by Musharraf in 2007.
The federal government has exclusively fixed Musharraf in this case and filed a complaint against him.
The hearing has now been adjourned until February 17, 2015.
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Time for the courts to get out from Vendettas by Nawaz and I Chaudhry. Dismiss it with prejudice.
A definite black eye for NAWAZ Sharif who wanted personal vendetta. Where is the big man prosecutor Akram Shaikh who promised the nation he will get a conviction of Musharraf in 10 days? Has he been in hiding ever since it was apparent he lied and was to fail? Now NAWAZ Sharif should withdraw the case and end this unwise exercise.
Sanity prevails.
We knew this entire case was just a personal vendetta,it was fake and highly politicised.
Long live Pervez Musharraf.
There are many many abettors. None of them chose to resign as if Musharraf's actions were wrong. They all benefitted.
Even Nawaz Sharif and his great team benefitted from Zia's military rule - much worst and retrogressive than anything we have seen.
Sanity prevails. Design prepared by Iftikhar Chaudhary and Sharifs miserably failed. Our hero and the lbest eader in Pakistan emerges clean. Solute to Musharraf who had courage to come to Pakistan when worst people were at helm of the affairs.