ISLAMABAD – Former President Pervaiz Musharraf counsel react over the deathpenalty by social court.
The decision to hand death penalty to former president retired Gen PervezMusharraf will be challenged in the Supreme court, Advocate Salman Safdar,lead counsel of the former military ruler announced in a press conferenceon Tuesday.
The press conference was held hours after a special court announced itsverdict in a treason case against Musharraf, sentencing him to death forabrogating the Constitution and imposing emergency in the country in 2007.
Advocate Safdar noted that the trial was unconstitutional and laws wereneglected during the process.
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He said that Musharraf was denied the right to fair trial.
The former dictator’s counsel said that the case was decided in a hurry anddeclared that the decision was “worse than the decision to hang [formerprime minister] Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto” — who was sentenced to death in amurder case.
