The special court formed to hear a high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday sentenced the former dictator to death for imposing a state of emergency on November 3, 2007.
The case had been heard by a special bench comprising Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court and Justice Nazar Akbar of the Sindh High Court (SHC). They had been appointed on the orders of the Supreme Court.
SHC’s Justice Akbar had dissented from the verdict.
The special court had reserved its verdict in the long-running treason trial last month.
The court, when reserving its verdict, had said it will announce its judgement on November 28. However, the Islamabad High Court had barred the bench from issuing the verdict on the said date.
When the special court reconvened on November 28, it had noted that it was not bound to follow the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) order. Nonetheless, the court allowed the ex-dictator to one more chance to record his statement in the case by December 5.
In its hearing on December 5, the special court had announced that it would issue the verdict on December 17, even if arguments of both sides were not completed by then.
