Musharraf treason case: Court rejects adjournment plea

E-Paper | May 03, 2026

RAWALPINDI: The special court on Thursday resumed the hearing of the treason case against former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf, DawnNews reported.

During today's hearing, the court headed by Sindh High Court's Justice Faisal Arab rejected the request of the former president's counsel which had sought to adjourn the hearing.

Advocate Rana Ejaz, a counsel for Musharraf, requested the court to adjourn the hearing of the case until Monday, as the former military strongman's legal defence team was engaged with the Supreme Court's hearing of the review petition filed against the apex court's earlier ruling which had declared Musharraf's November 3, 2007 actions of imposing an emergency unconstitutional.

Rejecting the defence counsel's plea, the bench instructed the prosecutors to present their arguments on objections to Musharraf's medical report.

Chief prosecuting lawyer Barrister Akram Sheikh termed Musharraf's medical report a piece of paper and said that despite a passage of 28 days the former president had neither undergone an ECG nor an enzyme test.

He further described the medical report as 'unprofessional'.

The court took a recess until 11:30 am.

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Taseer Ahmad Siddiqui

Jan 30, 2014 12:18pm

There are other articles of the constitution which are broken by the whole prov and federal assembly eg article 62 and 63. Why focus on article 6 only?

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Omer

Jan 31, 2014 12:19am

Wow, I didn't know Akram Sheikh is a doctor as well, a heart specialist!

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kirther

Jan 31, 2014 05:34am

Be careful, people like Akram Sheikh are hypocrites, he is one of many you can find in Pakistan. Any politician or lawyer who use the great religion Islam for their benefit or present a Islamic posture are biggest hypocrites as they are known to twist facts according to their likes. As demanded by their profession they cannot be honest and forthright.

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mazhar sultan

Feb 01, 2014 04:57am

ihis has become a kangroooo court of Pakistan A slap on the democracy good job MR judiciary

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jamal

Feb 02, 2014 09:32pm

How many of our politicians are non-corrupt?

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