Summary The plea requested the court to immediately implement its decision instead of waiting for 15 days.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - The Sindh High Court has rejected a petition filed by Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf seeking a review of the court’s earlier decision to remove his (Musharraf) name from the exit control list (ECL).
The review petition filed by the counsel of the former military strongman had requested the court to immediately implement its decision instead of waiting for 15 days for the government to challenge the decision.
Supreme Court on Monday suspended Sindh High Court s (SHC) verdict regarding removal of Pervez Musharraf’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL).
A five-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Nasiul Mulk, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, and Justice Ijaz Afzal heard federal government’s plea challenging SHC’s verdict.
The government in its appeal had requested the apex court to suspend Sindh High Court’s decision for allowing Musharraf to travel abroad.
On June 12, a two-judge bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Justices Mohammad Ali Mazhar and Shahnawaz issued a 44-page verdict ordering the federal government to remove Musharraf s name from the ECL.
The high court had declared that the parties opposing its ruling could move the Supreme Court in the next 15 days and made it clear that till then Musharraf cannot leave the country.
Musharraf had filed a petition in the court to remove his name from the ECL so that he can visit his ailing mother in the UAE.
Musharraf, the first military ruler in Pakistan s history to be tried in court, has rejected all the charges levelled against him, including treason. If convicted, he can get death penalty.
70-year-old Musharraf, who returned to Pakistan in March last year ahead of the general elections ending his over four-year self-imposed exile, has faced multiple trials including one under the high-treason act for which he was placed under house arrest and barred from travelling abroad.
Musharraf has been indicted for suspending, subverting and abrogating the Constitution, imposing an emergency in the country in November 2007 and detaining judges of the superior courts. He had seized power by overthrowing the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999 and ruled till late 2008.
Musharraf was also named as an accused in the murder cases of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and former Baloch tribal leader Akbar Bugti in 2006.
