A special court was formed on Saturday to resume hearings in the high treason trial against former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf, a private TV channel reported.
The bench will be headed by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Yawar Ali and will include Sindh High Court’s Justice Nazar Akbar. Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nasir has approved the names of the new special court bench members. The law ministry will issue a notification in this regard.
On March 29, the special court bench conducting the high treason trial against the former president was dissolved after Justice Yahya Afridi, who headed the bench, recused himself from hearing the case.
Justice Afridi, who is chief justice of the Peshawar High Court, recused himself from the bench after Musharraf’s lawyer objected to his inclusion, saying Justice Afridi had been lawyer of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the past.
The special court hearing the case had resumed proceedings against Musharraf on March 8 after a gap of nine months.
Published in Daily Times, April 8th 2018.
