The Lahore High
Court (LHC) on Monday
issued a detailed verdict reg
arding declaring the formation of a special court to hear high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf as unlawful. The detailed verdict was
issued by Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi.
The court in its verdict said that Article VI could not be enforced from past. The bench also expunged clause (ix) of the Criminal Law Special
Court (Amendment) Act 1976.
Article 6 of the Constitution was modi
fied through the 18th Amendment in 2010, while the case against Musharraf concerned events that happened before that.
Musharraf had been sentenced to death by a special court on December 17, 2019, aft
er six years of hearing the case, which was filed against him by the previous PML-N government after it assumed office in 2013.
