Treason Abettors : Larger bench recommended

Justice Athar Minallah requested (IHC) chief justice to constitute a larger bench for hearing of identical petitions

ISLAMABAD: Justice Athar Minallah has requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) chief justice to constitute a larger bench for hearing of identical petitions of the alleged aiders and abettors in the treason case pending against former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf before the special court. Justice Minallah has requested the Chief Justice Anwar Khan Kasi to constitute a larger bench for the case. Former federal minister for science and technology Zahid Hamid, who was Musharraf’s law minister in 2007, former chief justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz had challenged the special court’s order of November 21 before the IHC. The special court had ordered the federal government to include more names as abettors in Musharraf’s act of imposing emergency.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 28^th, 2015.