LAHORE: Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) chairman Abid Saqi has approved a petition in the Supreme Court filed against Lahore High Court decision in the high treason case.
The Lahore High Court on 13th January termed the formation of a special court as unconstitutional that awarded death sentence to former President General Pervez Musharraf.
A three-member bench, headed by Lahore High Court Justice Mazhar Akbar Naqvi, heard the petition against the formation of a special court in a serious treason case against Pervez Musharraf.
The high court also ruled that the amended Article 6 of the Constitution, under which Musharraf had been found guilty, could not be applied in the case. Article 6 of the Constitution was modified through the 18th Amendment in 2010, while the case against Musharraf concerned events that preceded that date.
The decision came in response to a petition filed by Musharraf challenging the formation of the special court for the high treason case against him.
Musharraf had been handed the death penalty in December last year after being found guilty on five counts in a 2-1 majority verdict. He had subsequently approached the LHC filing three petitions earlier this month.
The former president had not only challenged his conviction but also the formation of the special court that handed him the death penalty for high treason, as well as the complaint filed against him by the former government that resulted in the trial.
However, the court had only admitted the petitions challenging the formation of the special court and the complaint registered against the former president. The hearings had proceeded before a three-member bench of the high court.
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