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common Pakistanis. Democracy crossing in front of the Na- IMRAN INVOKES SPIRITS!
The months of the November and tional Assembly in Rawalpindi. Imran Khan was away during the Christ-
December 2019 were epoch-making Musharraf, who had toppled the civil- mas holidays to his huge residence at
and historical in the history of Pakistan, ian government led by Nawaz Sharif in Bani Gala, a suburb in Lahore, to re-
when the judiciary tried to rein in some 1999 had superseded the Pakistani Con- portedly invoke certain spirits by this
order or procedure in the appointment stitution in 2007 and had imposed Emer- wife, Bushra Bibi, who is known to be
of the army chief. Also a special court gency in the country and also detained a spiritualist. She is housewife and the
convicted and gave him death sentence more than 100 judges. third spouse, who he had married just
to Musharraf for suspending constitu- There are serious cases against this six months before he assumed office as
tion as a high treason. The presiding former military dictator such as the as- Prime Minister. His second wife, Reham
judge Waqar Aemad Seth has also ob- sassinations of the Balaoch leader, Akbar Khan, a former BBC anchor and author,
served that if (MUsharraf) dies before Bugti in 2006, Benazir Bhutto and killing lives in London.
being brought to Pakistan, his corpse of an eminent cleric in the red mosque Most of the journalists and political
should be hanged for three days at the siege in 2007 respectively. analysts of Paksitan, including Hasan

Musharraf may never face trial

for murders of Benazir and Bugti

IN SPITE OF his assertion in Dubai
before a select press gathering on
Friday, December 27, 2019 that there is
an amicable atmosphere for his return
to Pakistan, few really believed Pervez
Musharraf already convicted and
faces gallows under the high-treason
charges, would really ever dare to make
a comeback.
The trial court had punished two
senior police officers in 2017 for their
negligence, when she was attacked.
They have been given 17 –year jail term,
but Musharraf with the help of his sup-
porters in the GHQ successfully evaded
the court summons.
The court has declared him a fugi-
tive and also ordered the confiscation
of his properties in Pakistan. It took loyalists occupy key positions in the connections.
almost a decade to complete the trial of Imran Khan’s administration. Notable One of the most charismatic leaders
the crime committed in 2007. There is among them is Ejaz Shah, who has of the Indian subcontinent, Benazir,
dismay among lawyers and those con- become Pakistan’s Interior Minister. who had left Pakistan amidst unsub-
nected with the human rights issue that He had served the Pakistani army and stantiated corruption accusations,
the failure of the trial court to bring also known for having close links with was received to an unprecedented
Musharraf, who “shamelessly” appears terrorist organizations. Musharraf had welcome in Karachi. She had come to
on international and Pakistani televi- posted him to Australia as Pakistan’s campaign for the 2008 polls. Before the
sion channels regularly. High Commissioner, but the Austral- Federal Investigation Agency in 2009, a
Musharraf’s confidence emanates ian Government declined to receive well-known American journalist, Mark
from the fact that as many as 16 of his him as he was known for his terror Siegel, had testified that she had sent

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