KARACHI: The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) on Tuesday challenged the Lahore High Court’s decision in Pervez Musharraf treason case pleading that the formation of special court was lawful. The SHCBA, in its petition, requested the Supreme Court to reinstate the decision to award Musharraf the death penalty, and stated that the high court did not have any authority to hear the petition against the constitution special court. Last month, the LHC, in its decision, had termed the formation of a special court hearing the Musharraf treason case as unconstitutional, and ruled that the amended Article 6 of the Constitution, under which Musharraf had been found guilty, could not be applied in the case ‘ex post facto’ (retrospectively). Article 6 of the Constitution was modified through the 18th Amendment in 2010, while the case against Musharraf concerned events that happened before that. The decision came in response to a petition filed by Musharraf challenging the formation of the special court for the high treason case against him.

Source: Pakistan Today February 25, 2020 15:00 UTC