{"id":317983,"date":"2019-12-17T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317983"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T09:13:45","slug":"pervez-musharraf-sentenced-to-death-by-special-court-in-high-treason-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pervez-musharraf-sentenced-to-death-by-special-court-in-high-treason-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death by special court in high treason case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310197 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pervez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pervez.jpg 519w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pervez-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/>Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a special court in high treason case against him, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The sentence was announced by a three-member bench headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Musharraf, 76, was sentenced to death in the long-drawn high treason case against him for suspending the Constitution and imposing emergency rule in the Pakistan in November 2007, a punishable offence for which he was indicted in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former Pakistan Army chief had left for Dubai for medical treatment and has not returned since, citing security and health reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pervez Musharraf was booked in the treason case in December 2013 and was indicted for the punishable offence on March 31, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-member bench had reserved the verdict in the case on November 19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a special court in high treason case against him, reports said. The sentence was announced by a three-member bench headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth Musharraf, 76, was sentenced to death in the long-drawn high treason case against him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[48,6922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318003,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317983\/revisions\/318003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}