ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan takes important step over PervaizMusharraf death penalty verdict.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday summoned an emergency meeting ofPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s core committee to discuss the conviction offormer military dictator Pervez Musharraf in a high treason case.
The prime minister was in Geneva on Tuesday to attend the “Global RefugeeForum” when the special court formed to try the ex-president announced itsverdict awarding him the death penalty for imposing a state of emergency in2007 and suspending the Constitution.
The verdict, announced by a three-member bench of the special tribunal, wasreceived with ‘lot of pain and anguish’ by Pakistan Army.
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The government, too, had expressed its reservations to the verdict, sayingthat the requirements for a fair trial under Article 10-A were notfulfilled in the case.
Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan has already made it clear that thegovernment will not oppose an appeal against the special court’s verdict.
