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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In 2013, Pakistan's interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, announced that the government would formally proceed with the prosecution of former President Pervez Musharraf on charges of treason for suspending the country's constitution in 2007, imposing emergency rule, and sacking most of the judiciary. Khan was not bluffing. Musharraf was indicted for high treason under Article 6 of the constitution, a charge that could carry the death penalty. A special court was set up to hear the case. Adding to Musharraf's woes, a 237-page report by the Federal Investigative Agency released last May denounced Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency as illegal and in the service of his own 'ulterior motives'. The detailed report marshals significant evidence that Musharraf acted by fiat, without consulting other officials (such as his own prime minister, Shaukat Aziz) as required by law.
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