Islamabad : An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday rejected former president Pervez Musharraf’s exemption plea and directed him to appear in court on May 22 in the judges’ detention case.
The case was heard by Judge Sohail Ikram. The case over the detention of the judges is based on an FIR filed against Musharraf in August 2009. The FIR itself is based on a complaint by a lawyer named Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Ghumman.
Ghumman had asked police to initiate proceedings against Musharraf for detaining over 60 judges, including Supreme Court former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, after imposing emergency on November 3, 2007. The case is one of three against Musharraf in courts within Pakistan.
