Attorney of retired Gen Pervez Musharraf offered himself for punishment instead of the former president during the proceedings of treason trial.
The dramatic move came during the hearing before the Special Court hearing high-treason case.
According to Dawn News, advocate Rana Ijaz Ahmed, who was law minister of Punjab in the Musharraf regime, asked the court to hang him or sentence him for life as envisaged in the High Treason Punishment Act 1973 for abrogating the Constitution.
He said Musharraf is admitted to hospital, and he had served with him as provincial law minister and it will be an honour for him if the court may announce any sentence for him in place of the former general.
Ahmed added that he was a true friend of Gen Musharraf and want to prove that a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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