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Jan 13, 2020 · 13 January 2020. Reuters. A court in Pakistan has overturned the death sentence handed down to former president Pervez Musharraf by declaring the legal process unconstitutional. Gen...
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Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan ex-leader sentenced to death for treason. Former military chief Pervez Musharraf is convicted in absentia of treason in a long-running trial.
- A Controversy Around The Verdict
- The State of Civil-Military-Judiciary Relations in Pakistan
- Fall from Grace
Beyond the paragraph proposing a barbaric public hanging, the verdict has been controversial on several other grounds. There has been debate on the fact of the trial occurring in absentia, as well as on the timing of the initial verdict, seemingly given out in a hurry just two days before the current Supreme Court Chief Justice Asif Khosa is set to...
Political parties other than Khan’s hailed the initial verdict as pro-democracy in Pakistan – despite obvious questions about the severity of the death penalty — given the strong precedent that it sets against the military being able to assume power via a coup or impose a state of emergency. This leads to a somewhat ironic situation, with the curre...
The story of Musharraf’s fall is a remarkable one, especially for those in the West who remember him as the prominent face of Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror post-9/11. Musharraf was later revealed to be duplicitous in his dealings with the United States, but his ultimate fall from grace in Pakistan was due to a very different, entirely do...
On 17 December 2019, the special court found Musharraf guilty of high treason and sentenced him to death under Article 6 of the Constitution in a 2–1 split verdict. On 19 December 2019, the special court released the 169-page detailed verdict authored by PHC CJ Waqar Ahmed Seth with a dissenting note from Justice Nazar Akbar .
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- December 17, 2019
- Special Court of Islamabad
- Nazar Akbar
Dec 17, 2019 · A Pakistani court has sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia for treason over his 2007 imposition of emergency rule. Such a verdict is a first in a country...
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Jan 10, 2024 · In December 2019, a special court in Islamabad found the ex-dictator guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence under Article 6 of the Constitution. It marked the first time in...
Dec 17, 2019 · ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After years of delays and disruptions, a special court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced the country’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, to death in a treason...
