LAHORE: Furious over a special court’s verdict to drag Gen (retd.) Pervez Musharraf”s corpse to the Parliament and hang it for three days, the Pakistan government said that it will move to the Supreme Judicial Council to unseat the judge.
Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, who headed the three-member bench, the special court on Thursday said the “convict be hanged by his neck till he dies on each count as per charge”.
“We direct the law enforcement agencies to strive their level best to apprehend the fugitive/convict and to ensure that the punishment is inflicted as per law and if found dead, his corpse be dragged to the D-Chowk, Islamabad, Pakistan and be hanged for 03 days,” he said.
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On Thursday, Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the capital Islamabad after the verdict, a military spokesperson said.
Following that meeting, the government announced it would be filing a reference against the judge, who is also the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court, for his observations. Federal Minister of Law and Justice Farogh Naseem termed the verdict “unprecedented and despicable”.
The Supreme Judicial Council is the only body to remove a judge of high and supreme court in Pakistan.
