Petition filed in SC against trial verdict.

KARACHI -- A regular litigant on Thursday filed a petition against the judgement of the special court which handed death sentence to former army chief retired Gen Pervez Musharraf for high treason.

Mahmood Akthar Naqvi said he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court's Karachi Registry on Thursday to challenge the conviction.

Impleading federal secretaries of law, defence, cabinet division, interior ministries and others as respondents, Mr Naqvi contended that the offence of high treason was not applicable to Mr Musharraf since Article 6 was amended in the 18th Amendment in 2010 while Mr Musharraf had declared a state of emergency in...

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