Special court in Pakistan announces death sentence to former Army Chief Pervez Musharraf in high treason case

In a first in Pakistan's history, a three-member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, today handed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf death sentence in the long-drawn high treason case. The former military chief is currently in Dubai.

The trial in the case of the former military dictator for clamping the



state of emergency in November 2007, had been pending since December 2013. Musharraf was indicted in March 2014 and the prosecution had tabled the entire evidence before the special court in September, same year. However, due to litigation at appellate forums, the trial of the former military dictator lingered on and he left Pakistan in March 2016.