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Pakistan court hands death penalty to former president Pervez Musharraf

The previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government had filed the treason case against the former army chief in 2013

Ajmal Kasab, Pervez Musharraf, Kulbhushan Jadhav
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Pervez Musharraf | Photo: Reuters

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A court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced former president Pervez Musharraf to death for high treason, giving its judgment on charges relating to the imposition of extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, reported the Dawn newspaper.

Musharraf, 74, ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008 and lives in Dubai in self-imposed exile. The previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government had filed the treason case against the former army chief in 2013 over the imposition of an extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, which led to the confinement of a number of superior court judges in their houses and sacking of over 100 judges.

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