ISLAMABAD: Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Monday resubmitted to the Supreme Court his reply in a case of high treason being heard against him.
Sources said the former military ruler filed his reply through his counsel Ahmed Raza Kasoori after excluding a para about Chief Justice of Pakistan over which the court had earlier raised its objecting and retuned the request.
Musharraf had prayed the court to constitute full court to hear the case and that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry should not be a part of it since allegations leveled in these petitions have direct relevance with the CJ.
The SC has formed a two-member bench – comprising of Justice Jawwad S Khawja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain – to hear five identical petitions against Musharraf seeking his trial under article 6 of the Constitution for imposing the state of emergency in 2007 and subverting the Constitution.
The former army chief returned last month after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election despite the possibility of arrest on various charges and death threats from the Pakistani Taliban.
His nomination papers were rejected from three out of four constituencies where he filed the papers.
