Earlier today the Special Court trying former president Pervez Musharraf for charges of high treason has accepted his plea seeking inclusion of three other co-accused in the case.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Faisal Arab resumed hearing of the case today and accepted the former military ruler’s application in which he had requested the court to include former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, former law minister Zahid Hamid and former Chief Justice (rtd) Abdul Hameed Dogar.
Issuing it ruling, the court ordered the federal government to initiate treason proceedings under Article 6 of the Constitution against the three bigwigs who were part of Musharraf’s Nov 3 decision to impose state of emergency in the country in 2007.
The bench, also comprising Justice Tahira Safdar and Justice Yawar Ali, gave 15 days to government to file an amended challan in the case.
It was a majority decision by the three-member bench, as Justice Yawar Ali gave his dissenting note over the ruling.
Replying to a question, he said neither has Musharraf a plan to leave the country nor he can till his name is on the Exit Control List (ECL).
