The Nawaz Sharif Government has levelled five charges of high treason against former president Pervez Musharraf for his trial in a special court constituted for this purpose.
The 11-page complaint was handed over by Interior Secretary Shahid Khan to Abdul Ghani Soomro, registrar of the special court, Thursday for the trial of the former military ruler, media reported Friday.
The Government also submitted a list of prosecution witnesses comprising M. Siraj, deputy secretary of the cabinet division; Mohammad Khalid Qureshi, additional director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA); Maqsoodul Hassan and Hussain Asghar, both directors of the FIA; Taj Umar Khan, deputy solicitor in the law and justice ministry; Talib Hussain of PTV News; Kaleeem Shehzad, section officer of the cabinet division; and Khalid Rasool, an inspector in the FIA.
The three judges of the special court, whose names were approved by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last month, are Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court, Justice Syeda Tahira Safdar of the Balochistan High Court and Justice Yawar Ali of the lahore High Court. According to reports, the first charge is that Musharraf proclaimed an unconstitutional and unlawful emergency Nov 3, 2007 that kept the constitution in abeyance. IANS