Musharraf cannot be sentenced to death: Justice Nazar Akbar.

ISLAMABAD -- Justice Nazar Muhammad Akbar - a part of the special court's three-member bench who heard the treason case - wrote a dissenting note acquitting former president general (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the detailed verdict.

According to 169 pages detailed verdict, Justice Nazar Akbar of Sindh High Court (SHC) acquitted former president general (retd) Pervez Musharraf of the high treason charges, observing that the prosecution failed to prove the case.

"I have respectfully gone through the proposed judgement authored by my brother Waqas Ahmad Seth J [...] with my humble comprehension of law and justice, I happened to dissent with majority view of my learned brothers," said Justice Akbar in his dissenting note.

"In the offence under Article 6 of the Constitution, the charging word is "high treason", therefore, without properly appreciating what does it mean, this court cannot pass a just and fair verdict."

Justice Nazar Akbar remarked that the National Assembly passed its resolution on November 7, 2007 and ratified the implementation of the emergency. 'Many parliamentarians, who are lawyers and they were participating in the lawyers movement, even thay had no courage to make any motion in the Parliament,' he said, adding that the Parliament has conciously validated all actions of the accused.

However, Musharraf's colleagues with others present at the time of the emergency were not named in the case. He further stated that the Interior Ministry also failed to make a transparent inquiry into the serious treason case.

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