*ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench will hear a petition about high treasonproceedings against former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf overproclamation of emergency on November 3, 2007.*
Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa, has fixed a contempt petitionfiled by a lawyer on behalf of Lahore High Court Bar, for hearing on March07.
A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Khosa will hear the petition.Justice Mazhar Alam and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah will be other two membersof the bench.
LHC bar had filed a petition for initiation of the high treason case underArticle 6 of the Constitution.
The high treason case against Musharraf was started months after thePML-N’s government won general elections in May 2013 and came to power.
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The trial could not be concluded yet due to scores of reasons and hurdlesin proceedings.
The former president went abroad due to health reasons and has yet toreturn.
In its last order in October 2018, the special court had decided to form ajudicial commission to record the statement of Musharraf under Section 342CrPC in the high treason case.
