Musharraf : Treason or High Treason
By Rohail Butt • Jul 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics • 17 CommentsThere is a well-defined difference between treason and high treason. Treason is an offence under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) whereas a separate statute of law exists for high treason after the heinous offence has been provided in the Constitution. If someone works against the state, for example, by raising a private army, he commits treason but if he subverts the Constitution, he is guilty of high treason.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz is going to arraign Musharraf’s trial under The High Treason (Punishment) Act 1973. They are right now lobbying hard to convince government to support them. PML(N) is also hard at work to accumulate support from other parties, as it wants to have a national consensus over this issue. PML(N) doesn’t want to take credit over Musharraf’s trial, because they dont want to score the political points rather they are really interested in the hanging of Musharraf.
PML(N) is all set to taken on Musharraf in court over Nov 3 promulgation of the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), state of emergency and suspension of the Constitution.
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but the CJ has stopped this, and passed it on to the Parliament.
Rohail Butt, read this with me, “PML(N) doesn’t want to take credit over Musharraf’s trial, because they dont want to score the political points rather they are really interested in the hanging of Musharraf.” - would you, please, be so kind & explain what am I to make out of this? Do you consider this shameful display of personal agenda of hatred & hubris something to celebrate or to mourn publically - why don’t you advise your ‘brave heroes’ to just cut it short and send one of their hired hitmen and get the job done and damn us the people and justice. Good that they have enough stupid supporters like you to understand and publish the real motives of all this farce in the name of ‘penal codes’ ‘courts’ & ‘judges’ - go be the judge & jury & the hangman - it suits you all!
Well, PML-N or no PML-N, Musharraf must be punished if we want any peace, progress, unity and harmony and survival of Pakistan.
No one would dare, because no one has the balls to go with him and alone he isn’t going nowhere!
Who would support PML N’s agenda ? PPP, MQM, ANP, PML Q ? All these parties had an arrangement with Musharraf to form new Govt in a latent deal when BB was alive. Who got this deal done –USA with the consensus of Pakistan Army. I don’t think these parties would create another issue here — At least MQM and PML Q won’t not sure about PPP.
Since Army is with Musharraf nobody can touch him
Tanzeel
lets see how long the “since” lasts
Dear sir, Mr. Arias, since no one has (since no one ever will, so this leads them to wait for eternity which might never come and the “since” which makes you wonder would last longer than your & my life spans put together !) the conviction or the guts to face a trial where everyone from “A - Z” has something to hide, there will never be any such thing as a trial. The only other route open for President Musharraf’s enemies is recommended above by Aftab S. Alam @ 2.
Great day!
General Musharraf is a man of honour. No judge can dare to touch him!
Nov 3 steps: hearing ends; verdict after Friday prayers
Updated at: 1234 PST, Friday, July 31, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court has Friday completed the hearing of the constitutional petitions regarding November 3 measures and the appointments of judges of higher judiciary.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry said he will not pass such a verdict as will trigger chaos in the country.
Something about Sir Doagr and Man Of Honour Musharraf
Reversal of Nov 3 verdict gets through Justice Dogar
Updated at: 0952 PST, Friday, July 31, 2009
ISLAMABAD: A recorded conversation of November 5, 2007 between a top legal aide and one of the key spymasters of Gen (retd) Musharraf has exposed how the reversal of historic November 3, 2007 decision of a seven-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was manipulated.
The top legal eagle of the ousted dictator is heard telling the spymaster that the then PCO Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had informed him about the existence of the formal and duly signed decision of the seven-member bench handed down on November 3, 2007 but that he (Dogar) had concealed it. Dogar, according to the legal aide, had also assured him that the next day ( i.e on Nov 6) he would get the Nov 3, SC order reversed by a bench comprising eight judges (one more than the earlier seven-member bench headed by CJ Iftikhar) and behold, the next day, things proceeded exactly according to plan as Dogar proved to be a ‘man of his words’. The eight-member Dogar court handed down a verdict that set aside the historic Nov 3 order of the seven-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
In its Nov 3 decision, the Supreme Court had declared Musharraf’s PCO as illegal and unconstitutional besides directing the judges of the superior judiciary not to take oath under the PCO. However, the PCO judges led by Mr Dogar showed their allegiance to the then dictator and took oath under the Musharraf PCO.
In the audio tape, Musharraf’s top legal aide is heard assuring the spymaster that Dogar is his man and would do everything as per their desire. It may be recalled that Dogar was approached in Court No 1 on Nov 5 with the query to clarify the standing of the Nov 3 order if any. Dogar was also asked if there existed any Nov 3 order of the seven-member bench. If yes, he was told to get it reversed through a judicial verdict.
At this point the legal eagle tells the spymaster that Dogar asked him (the legal aide) to come to his chamber where he was told that yes there was a Nov 3 decision duly signed by the judges. But then Dogar was quoted as saying that he had kept it to himself. Dogar was further quoted as saying, “It is a decision of the seven-member bench and we would get it reversed tomorrow by an eight-member bench.”
The recorded conversation apparently was the legal aide reporting to the spy chief about his talks with Justice Dogar, the government’s efforts to buy the loyalties of deposed judgesand the new inductions into the Supreme Court to overturn the seven-member bench decision which had set aside the imposition of emergency and promulgation of PCO on November 3, 2007 by a pre-Nov 3 independent judiciary judges bench.
The tape unambiguously establishes that the military dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf enjoyed absolute control over the PCO judiciary and got decisions of his own choice.
It was following the Nov 6 fixed judgment of the Dogar court that another seven-member bench under Dogar was constituted, to hear petitions of Iqbal Tikka and others, challenging the Nov 3 unconstitutional actions, but it all ended up to the entire satisfaction of General Musharraf, whose Nov 3 actions were validated on Nov 21 the same year.
The legal aide, who is caught unguarded in the audio tape, when approached by The News admitted that on Nov 5 Dogar had told him in his chamber that the Nov 3 order would be overturned. He, however, said that he does not remember if he had talked to the spymaster.
For the moment the identities of the cited legal aide and the spymaster have been withheld by the Jang Group Editorial Board as further investigations are being carried out in the light of information revealed by the contents of the tape and once these investigations are concluded then the new information along with the identities of the two gentlemen shall be made public.
Dear all
Who doesn’t know the true face of DOGar court and its master Musharaf … so all those who are trying to support the dictator are you Pakistanis???? or may be sehba, and bilal musharaf are writing all these Blogs with different names…………………..but just wait and see … this time its not any party or leader but the Almighty himself that will bring Coward Dictator to justice
Arias, the story comes from none other than the BLACKMAILER Journalist Ansar Abbasi
Justice Chaudhry should better take suo moto action on the beast-like behavior of CRIMINAL lawyers
THE PAKISTANI NATION REJECTS BIASED COURT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST OUR NATIONAL HERO PRESIDENT GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF!
Hum Nahi Mantay….Hum Nahi Mantay!
Hassan,
your wish has been garnted suo moto action as been taken against the rouge lawyers by the LHC, and LCBA has suspended the membership of the lawyers and demanded an explaination
>>>>>>>the story comes from none other than the BLACKMAILER Journalist Ansar Abbasi
if the blackmailer abbasi says he has a recording and lets wait and see what is on the tape
when the time comes abbasi or dogar will be exposed
>>>>>>>>>THE PAKISTANI NATION REJECTS BIASED COURT PROCEEDINGS
i didnt hear about any protests against the court, if you are still banking on that silent majority, then the time is here to show it
Please all the supporters of fictional story of nawaz and CJP nexus or the cjp being a tool for nawaz read this
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ignored on Thursday a plea to order initiation of high treason charges against former president Pervez Musharraf for proclaiming emergency on Nov 3, 2007, as army chief.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, who is heading a 14-judge bench hearing challenges to the imposition of emergency, observed that this was not the responsibility of the court. The court would rather take a simple route to decide cases before it, instead of derailing the system.