Pervez Musharraf treason case to be heard on March 8

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ A special tribunal in Pakistan will resume on March 8 the hearing of treason case against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency rule in the country in 2007.

Musharraf, 74, who left the country for Dubai in March 2016, was declared a proclaimed absconder by the court in May 2016. The court also asked the government to confiscate his properties, including a farm house in suburbs of capital Islamabad.

The former president was indicted in March, 2014 on treason charges for imposing emergency in the country which led to the confinement of a number of superior court judges in their houses and sacking of over 100 judges.

A three-member bench headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Yahyah Afridi will now resume the hearing in the case. During the last hearing in the case, the court ordered the Interior Ministry to reverify Musharraf s properties and provide details of his current assets and bank transactions.

The court, during the proceedings, had also expressed dissatisfaction over the details of the former dictator’s properties, saying that the details are only up till 2008.