LAHORE, Dec 15: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain sees the government in trouble as it pursues a sedition case against Gen (retired) Pervez Musharraf ‘in a haste’.

“The treason case against Gen (retired) Musharraf is being pursued in such a haste it will ultimately become a garland of thorns for the government,” he said in a press release on Sunday.

“All these proceedings (being conducted) without approval of the cabinet are tantamount to victimisation and against the principles of justice,” he added.

Mr Shujaat said the news reports gave an impression that the case was never taken up during formal proceedings of the federal cabinet nor any decision as such has been taken in this regard.

“If the federal cabinet has (taken) any decision the government should have made it public,” he said.

Terming the case an attempt of the government to deviate attention of the people from real problems, he warned that it could have very grave consequences for the government.

He said increasing prices of daily-use articles have made lives of the people quite miserable as unemployment was touching new heights, prices of flour, rice and other eatables have spiraled out of people’s reach.

But the government, he regretted, was paying little attention to these basic issues of the people forgetting the promises it had made in its election manifesto. —Staff Reporter