Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
has fixed January 1 for his indictment, the former military ruler is still seeking remedy from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the case.
Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan of the IHC on December 23 dismissed his three petitions against the establishment of the special court, appointment of its judges as well as Akram Sheikh as head of the prosecution team.
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Gen Musharraf has decided to file an intra-court appeal (ICA) with a two-member division bench of the IHC.
Advocate Faisal Hussain, one of the counsel for Gen Musharraf, told Dawn that his client had given the go-ahead to the legal team for filing the ICA against the rejection of the petitions. The ICA will be filed on Thursday or by the end of this week, he added.
"It is the right of Gen Musharraf as well as any other citizen to seek available remedies provided in the law and the constitution through the courts.
"If a citizen is not given relief through a constitutional petition, what is the other way to agitate his grievances," he added.