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ISLAMABAD: Justice Faisal Arab of the Special Court hearing the treason case against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, remarked on Wednesday that the interior secretary, being the complainant in the instant case, should first appear before the court to record his statement or the complaint might stand vitiated.
The three-member Special Court, headed by Justice Faisal Arab and comprising Justice Tahira Safdar and Justice Yawar Ali, resumed hearing into the Federation’s complaint to initiate the high treason case against Pervez Musharraf for imposing the emergency rule in the country on Nov 3, 2007.
In compliance with the court’s earlier order of May 8, Prosecutor Muhammad Akram Sheikh submitted before the court a 237-page report, containing the statement of 24 witnesses, including the then Punjab governor Khalid Maqbool and the then and incumbent Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad stating that the prime minister and governors were not consulted before the proclamation of emergency on November 3, 2007.
According to the report, former Cabinet Division secretary Masood Alam, in his statement, said no cabinet meeting was held on imposing emergency. Similarly, the former attorney general, Malik Qayyum, in his statement, said that Pervez Musharraf had not held any consultation with him on imposing the emergency rule.
It is pertinent to mention here that on April 24, 2014, Prosecutor Muhammad Akram Sheikh told the court that no material was found in the Prime Minister’s House that could prove that the former prime minister Shaukat Aziz had advised the former president to impose emergency. He submitted that only Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the emergency rule.
On Wednesday, in compliance with the court’s earlier order, the prosecution provided the court and defence team with copies of inquiry and investigation report, conducted by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the actions taken on November 3, 2007.
Musharraf’s lawyer Barrister Farogh Naseem had moved a plea, seeking copies of the FIA inquiry and investigation report on the actions taken on Nov 3, 2007. The court on May 8, after accepting the defence plea, directed the prosecution to deliver all the material relating to the investigation.
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