Times of Islamabad

Aitzaz Ahsan makes amazing statement over former President Pervaiz Musharraf death penalty verdict

Aitzaz Ahsan makes amazing statement over former President Pervaiz Musharraf death penalty verdict

Islamabad: Aitzaz Ahsan makes amazing statement over former PresidentPervaiz Musharraf death penalty verdict.Senior advocate, Aitzaz Ahsan hassaid that Pakistani law does not allow hanging a dead person.

Responding to detailed verdict issued by the special court in PervezMusharraf’s high treason case, he said that only a living person can behanged.

He added that this particular part of detailed judgment can possibly affectthe entire verdict.

The senior PPP leader further stated that it is not Taliban’s Afghanistan.

“The body could not be dragged or hung for three days at D-Chowk. Under noPakistani law, this is allowed,” he said.

The special court has issued detailed verdict of the high treason caseagainst former president Retd. General Pervez Musharraf in which he wassentenced to death.

The verdict, comprising 167 pages, said that the evidence presented hadproved that Pervez Musharraf committed a crime.