Pakistan’s former military dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Friday filed a petition in a court against the special court’s verdict convicting him of high treason and sentencing him to death, according to media reports.
Last week, the special court in Islamabad sentenced 76-year-old Musharraf to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.
The 86 page-long petition, filed by Advocate Azhar Siddique in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday on Musharraf’s behalf, named the federal government and others as respondents, Dawn News reported.
The petition highlighted that the “judgement contained a mix of anomalies and contradictory statements”.
It added that the special court “rapidly and hurriedly wrapped up the trial which was far from conclusion”, the report said.
The petition stated that the special court “has not taken into consideration that no actions detrimental to national interest were taken by the applicant” as “no offence of high treason is made out from the evidence presented against him (Musharraf) before the special court”.
The full bench, chaired by Justice Mazahir Ali Akbar Naqvi, will hear the petition on January 9, 2020.