PMl-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who was the Prime Minister under Pervez Musharraf for a brief period, has demanded the Constitution be amended to replace the words “high treason” with “offence against State”.
Hussain has submitted a draft of the proposed amendment to the Senate Secretariat on Tuesday which says that the words “high treason” in Article 6 should be replaced with offence against the State.
Musharraf, who is face charges of high treason for imposing emergency in 2007, was admitted to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi on January 2.