A special court in Islamabad decided to hear a case of high treason against retired former dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf on October 24.
A three-member bank, led by Judge Waqar Ahmad Seth, while listening to the case on Tuesday, ordered all parties to submit their arguments in writing before the next case hearing.
At the beginning of the hearing, an application was filed on behalf of Musharraf's lawyer, Raza Bashir, for the postponement of the hearing due to his health. According to the guilty plea, Bashir suffers from dengue and is under treatment at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore. The reason was granted.
During the last hearing in September, the same court had ordered that the proceedings in the treason trial would resume daily from October 8.
The President of the Supreme Court of Peshawar (PHC), Waqar Ahmad Seth, was tasked to hear the case by the federal government after the retirement of Judge Tahira Safdar, who previously headed the court.
The trial for high treason against the former military dictator for stopping the state of emergency on November 3, 2007 has been pending since December 2013.
He was registered in the case of treason in December 2013. He was charged on March 31, 2014, and the prosecution had presented all the evidence to the special court in September of the same year. However, due to litigation in appeal forums, the former military dictator's trial was delayed and he left Pakistan in March 2016.
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1509711/treason-trial-against-musharraf-to-be-heard-on-daily-basis-from-october-24