Booking
Musharraf
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QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Wednesday ordered the
registration of an FIR against former president Pervez Musharraf,
former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Balochistan chief
minister Jam Yousuf and others in the murder case of Nawab Akbar
Khan Bugti.
A single bench of the BHC, comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Essa,
issued the order after hearing the case on the registration of the
FIR in the Akbar Bugti murder case. The court issued directives to
the Dera Bugti SHO to register an FIR against the offenders,
including Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz, Jam Yousuf and former home
minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao.
Except Advocate Mansoor Shah, who was representing former interior
minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, no one appeared before the court
to represent the other accused. Mansoor Shah informed the court that
those who conducted the operation in Dera Bugti had not been under
the command of the then-interior minister.
The former Balochistan home minister, who appeared before the court
in person, said he had approached two lawyers but they did not
respond positively. He said that the former president and the whole
system at that time were responsible for the assassination of Nawab
Akbar Bugti. He affirmed that the operation was neither conducted on
his directives nor was he part of it in any way. He, however, termed
the killing of Nawab Bugti a big tragedy.
Later, the court directed the Dera Bugti SHO to register a case.
Only former Balochistan governor Owais Ahmed Ghani was spared.
Later, the court approved the petition for hearing and issued
notices to the accused and the federal and provincial officials to
appear before the court on Thursday.
APP adds: Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of late Nawab Bugti, said that
orders for lodging an FIR against the nominated persons was a first
step, adding that he would wait for investigation.
He said he would not go to Dera Bugti to register the FIR against
the nominated persons, adding ìit is a no-go area for our family
members.” He said they would seek help of forensic teams from abroad
and examination of the body would be carried out under the
supervision of the international human rights organisations.
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Police register case against Musharraf
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ISLAMABAD: Police registered on Tuesday
a case against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and his
unnamed collaborators on charges of detaining judges of superior courts
and their families in their houses after the proclamation of emergency
on Nov 3, 2007.
The Secretariat Police
registered the case at around 9am after 18 hours of discussion with
senior police officers and officials of the interior ministry.
The case was registered
in accordance with an order issued by the district additional and
sessions judge on Monday after four months of hearing of petitions
submitted by Advocate Chaudhry Aslam Ghuman.
In the FIR, the former
president and his collaborators had been charged under sections PPC 344
and 34 which deal with wrongful confinement for 10 or more days and acts
done by several persons in furtherance of common intention.
The complainant accuses
the former president of proclaiming illegal and immoral PCO, sacking the
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and 60
other judges of superior and higher courts, illegally and immorally
detaining the judges and their families for five and a half months,
stopping them from performing their judicial duty and their children
from appearing in examination.
The FIR said the acts
damaged the country’s judicial system, caused mental torture to lawyers’
community and citizens and also brought bad name for Pakistan throughout
the world.
Commenting on the text
and charges in the FIR, police and legal experts said the police had
booked the accused (the former president and his collaborates) only for
detaining the judges in illegal confinement.
They said that police
officials, intelligence agencies, city administration and the interior
ministry had been included in the category of collaborators for keeping
the judges in illegal confinement.
They said the
investigating officer– the SHO of the secretariat police—would visit the
area where the judges had been detained and record statements of the
judges, their family members and servants, officials deployed in and
around the house and the judicial colony.
Police sources said it
was a complicated case and needed guidelines and policy from senior
officers.
They said the case had
not been registered by affected people—judges and their family
members—who had been detained in their houses which might cause
complications.
Police said that only
seven judges had been detained in Islamabad’s judicial colony and the
others in different parts of the city, including Karachi, Quetta, Lahore
and Peshawar.
Similar cases should be
registered in the cities where the judges had been detained because the
places were out of the jurisdiction of capital police which would
investigate the matter.
A police team under the
supervision of a senior officer has been formed to investigate the
matter
