Posts tagged as: pervez musharraf

Musharraf gets bail in Benazir Bhutto murder case

A court in Rawalpindi on Monday granted bail to former President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, court officials said.   Musharraf had been accused of failing to provide security to Benazir Bhutto, who died in a suicide attack and gun shots in December 2007.   In spite […]

Nawaz Sharif invites Indian PM for oath-taking

Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who will lead Pakistan following his party’s victory in elections, Monday said he has invited Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to attend his oath taking ceremony.   The PML-N has secured comfortable position in the May 11 elections and is now consulting with his close aides to […]

Nawaz Sharif to lead Pakistan for third time

Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who has ruled Pakistan two times, is set to lead the country for a third time after unofficial results placed his party in a comfortable position against his political rivals.   Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has emerged as the single largest party in the un-official results declared so far by the […]

Musharraf gets life term ban on contesting elections

Te Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday declared former president Pervez Musharraf ineligible for ever to contest elections.   The four-member larger bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC), headed by the Chief Justice of PHC, also dismissed the former military ruler’s appeal against his disqualification from the elections on Tuesday.   Musharraf’s nomination papers […]

ATC grants Musharraf’s custody to FIA in Benazir case

An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on Friday granted physical custody of former President Pervez Musharraf in the assassination case of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, lawyers said.   Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan 1999-2008, has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from exile in October 2007.   […]

Musharraf’s interim bail rejected in Benazir murder case

The Lahore High Court on Wednesday rejected bail of former President Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, prosecutors said.   Musharraf had got an interim bail in the case and had approached the court for extension, however, the LHC rejected his application as his defence lawyers failed to appear […]

Only Gov’t can initiate treason case against Musharraf

Ahmad Raza Kasuri, defence lawyer of former president Pervez Musharraf’s lawyer, says that it is the exclusive domain of the Federal Government to initiate a high treason case under article 6 of the constitution. He told Radio Pakistan that no institution can direct the federal government in this regard. He said statements of Secretaries, Law […]

Carateker gov’t will not initiate treason case against Musharraf

The caretaker government on Monday refused to initiate high treason proceedings against former President Pervez Musharraf as it has a limited role to hold elections and to deal with the routine affairs.   The Supreme Court of Pakistan had sought reply from the government about five petitions, seeking Musharraf’s trial for treason for allegedly ‘subverting the […]

Musharraf’s Chak Shehzad home declared as sub-jail

Former President Pervez Musharraf was shifted to his home in Chak Shehzad Saturday evening hours after an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi ordered that he should be sent to jail in a case of illegally placing top judges under house arrest when he had imposed emergency rule in 2007.   Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi ordered that […]

Anti-terrorism court orders Musharraf be sent to jail

An anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on Saturday ordered that former President Pervez Musharraf should be sent to jail in a case of illegally placing top judges under house arrest when he had imposed emergency rule in 2007, court officials said.   Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi ordered that the former President should be produced again on […]

Musharraf denies judges’ arrest charge in police statement

Hours after former President Pervez Musharraf was arrested for imposing emergency rule in 2007 and placing top judges under house arrest, the police transferred him to the police headquarters in the capital for questioning on Friday, officials said.   Earlier in the morning Musharraf appeared before a court of a local magistrate in Islamabad and […]

Senate for Musharraf’s portraits removal from public buildings

The Senate on Friday passed a unanimous resolution, demanding the government to remove portraits of former President Pervez Musharraf from all the public buildings.   The resolution was moved by Senator Ishaq Dar of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the upper house of the parliament unanimously […]

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