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SC to hear treason petitions against Musharraf tomorrow |
2013-04-22 |
[Dawn] The Supreme Court will resume on Monday hearing petitions seeking initiation of a high treason case against former president retired General ![]() PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... . This time a three-judge bench would take up the case instead of the two-member bench that heard it previously. On Saturday, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry rejected a request seeking formation of a full court bench minus the chief justice and constituted the three-member bench comprising Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan to hear the case. In addition to oral requests, an application had been moved on Friday by Ibrahim Satti, the counsel for Gen Musharraf, for constitution of a full court bench. |
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