Chandigarh: Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday (Dec. 17) sentenced to death in the high treason case by a special court in Islamabad.
As per reports a three-member Bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, convicted and sentenced Parvez Musharraf to death sentence in the long-drawn high treason case against him for suspending the Constitution and imposing emergency rule in 2007. He was indicted in 2014.
Notably, the former Army chief left for Dubai for medical treatment in March 2016 and has not returned since, citing security and health reasons.