Pakistan court hands death penalty to former president Pervez Musharraf
A
court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced former president
Pervez Musharraf to death for high treason,
giving its judgment on charges relating to the imposition of
extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, reported the Dawn
newspaper.
Musharraf,
74, ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008 and lives in Dubai in
self-imposed exile. The previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)
government had filed the treason case against the former army chief
in 2013 over the imposition of an extra-constitutional emergency in
November 2007, which led to the confinement of a number of superior
court judges in their houses and sacking of over 100 judges.
The
trial in the high-profile treason case has not seen much progress
since Musharraf left for Dubai in March 2016 after his name was
removed from the no-fly list.
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