Summary Sources say former president Pervez Mushrraf’s Chak Shehzad villa has been declared a sub-jail.
ISLAMABD (Dunya News/Agencies) –Earlier, Thursday morning Islamabad High Court disallowed the bail plea filed by Pervez Musharraf and ordered his arrest, however, he left the court and proceeded to his Islamabad residence.
Taking notice of his non-arrest by the police the court sought explanations from the Islamabad police chief and the federal interior minister.
Musharraf faced no resistance from scores of law enforcement agents as he left the Islamabad High Court after the judge ordered his arrest over his controversial decision to dismiss judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.
It remains unclear if and when he could be detained, but Thursday s order was the latest humiliating blow against the man who returned to Pakistan last month to contest elections after four years in self-imposed exile.
Dozens of riot police carrying shields and batons massed outside Musharraf s villa and closed access to the street in the upmarket suburb of Chak Shahzad, but there were no moves to take the 69-year-old into custody.
Musharraf s legal team said they would appeal against the arrest order in the Supreme Court on Friday and that Thursday s drama had not dented his optimism.
"General Musharraf is hale and hearty. He is in high spirits, there is no change in his confidence level. He is sipping coffee and smoking cigars," his lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told reporters outside his villa.
Dozens of people chanted their support outside Musharraf s house and his office denounced the ruling as "unwarranted judicial activism seemingly motivated by personal vendettas".
A spokesman for his All Pakistan Muslim League told AFP that if the Supreme Court upholds the order, then Musharraf is expected to be put under house arrest.
"Musharraf did not flee the court. Actually there was no police official to arrest him and nobody tried to arrest him," the spokesman said.
The Supreme Court is already hearing a separate petition from lawyers demanding that Musharraf face trial for treason for subverting the constitution by imposing emergency law in 2007, punishable by death or life in prison.
A senior police official said on condition of anonymity that normal procedure would have been an immediate arrest at the court, but conceded no effort appeared to have been made to detain him there.
