Summary Rival candidate in NA 250 ( Karachi) challenges former president’s eligibility.
ISLAMABAD (Online): Counsels of former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf have prepared their case to get their client off the hook in the treason case being heard from Monday.
The Supreme Court had constituted a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to hear treason charges against the former president on Monday.
The petition was filed by the President of Rawalpindi High Court Bar Taufiq Asif, in which it is prayed that Musharraf should be tried under Article 6 for abrogating the constitution of Pakistan.
Sources close to Pervez Musharraf’s lawyers told Online that the counsels have prepared objections against CJP sitting in the bench.
The stance would be adopted that CJP cannot hear the case in which he himself is involved as it is not politically or morally correct.
Allegations have been leveled against the former president that he abrogated the constitution and kept the superior court judges including Iftikhar Chaudhry confined to their homes.
Due to these charges the CJP cannot sit on any bench hearing these cases.
The lawyers plan to submit their objections to the court when the court would issue summon notices of Pervez Musharraf or seeks written response.
Meanwhile, Objections have been raised over All Pakistan Muslim League chief, Pervez Musharraf nomination papers filed in Karachi’s NA-250.
According to details former City-Nazim, Namat-ul-Allah , also candidate in the same constituency, in his petition said that former military dictator had suspended the constitution twice.
In the plea file the petitioner’s counsel also claimed that Musharraf had declared emergency in the country that was also against the constitution of Pakistan.
Namat-ul-Allah also claimed that Musharraf was unfit to contest elections in the light of Article 62, 62 of the Constitution.
Earlier, Returning Officer in Kasur’s NA-139 constituency has rejected the nomination papers of former President and chief of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Pervez Musharraf for the coming general elections.
Rival candidate Javed Kasuri had raised six objections against Musharraf’s candidature.
