'Emergency' probe against Mush to be over in 6 weeks

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday said it would complete a probe into the 2007 emergency imposed by former President Pervez Musharraf in six weeks.

FIA Director General Saud Mirza said the statements of some bureaucrats had been recorded as part of the probe, the Dawn newspaper reported on its website. The investigation will be completed within six weeks, he said. Mirza said the probe was launched on the directives of the Interior Minister and Musharraf’s statement would soon be recorded.

Though the Government ordered the inquiry in late June, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on October 12 that he had asked the FIA to fast-track the case of high treason against Musharraf and to take the matter to a logical conclusion in six weeks.

The case was registered against Musharraf for subverting the Constitution by imposing emergency in November 2007. The emergency lasted until December 15 of the same year.In July 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that the military strongman’s decision to impose emergency was unconstitutional and illegal.