Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf will not attend the treason trial against him Thursday for suspending the Constitution, citing deteriorating health and requested a special court to postpone the hearing until the end of Ramazan, according to a media report. In an application, supported by a health certificate, furnished by his lawyer Salman Safdar, the former Pakistan president also apologised for not appearing before the court, the Dawn reported on Thursday.A special court indicted Gen (Retd) Musharraf for high treason in March 2014. Musharraf left for Dubai in 2016 to "seek medical treatment" and has not returned since. It stressed that the former president came to Pakistan on March 24, 2013, on his own free will to face the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, judges' detention case and Akbar Bugti case and that the high treason case was initiated subsequent to his arrival in the country. If he failed to appear, the special court is empowered to proceed against him even in his absence.

Source: dna May 02, 2019 07:30 UTC