Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in high treason case

Pakistan Court on Tuesday sentenced former Pakistan dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf to death in a high treason case, for suspending Constitution. With this death sentence, Pervez Musharraf will be first former Army chief in Pakistans history to be awarded a death penalty. A Special court in Pakistan h ordered 76-year-old former President of Pakistan to record his statement by December 5. 

statement was me by a three-member bench of special court, heed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth, which was conducting a hearing of case against former president on Thursday, Geo News reported. Musharraf has maintained that treason case filed against him is 'baseless' and that his lawyer was left unheard in Pakistani Court. Pervez Musharraf, who has been in Dubai for past three years citing serious health concerns, recorded a video mess from  Dubai's American Hospital. In video mess, he h said that he was "very unwell" and has h health issues for a while w. 

former Pakistani President said, "My lawyer Salman Safdar is t being heard by court. I have fought wars for Pakistan and served my country for 10 years."  His legal team can apply to Pakistani Supreme Court. He was booked in treason case in December 2013, under Nawaz Sharif government in Pakistan. Musharraf seized power by ousting n-Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a 1999 bloodless coup. He has also served as Pakistan's president from 2001 to 2008.

ex-military dictator was charged with Article 6 of Pakistani Consitution.  Article 6 of Constitution says: “Any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or hold in abeyance, or attempts or conspires to abrogate or subvert or suspend or hold in abeyance Constitution by use of force or show force or by any or unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason."

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High Treason Case

high treason trial of former military dictator for clamping state of emergency on vember 3, 2007, filed during previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government, has been pending since 2013. He was booked in treason case in December 2013. Musharraf was indicted on March 31, 2014, and prosecution h tabled entire evidence before special court in September same year.

But due to litigation at appellate forums, trial of former military dictator lingered on and he left Pakistan in March 2016 with d of superior courts as well as interior ministry for medical treatment. According to previous Pakistani media reports, Musharraf h amyloidosis, a rare disease caused by build-up of an abrmal protein called amyloid in organs and tissues in body, and is under medication. 

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(with PTI inputs)