PPP leaders react to Musharraf's death sentence.

ISLAMABAD -- Senior leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have reacted to the death sentence awarded to former president general (retd) Pervez Musharraf in high treason case.

Renowned lawyer Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan while exclusively talking to a private TV channel said that when an army general orders to remove and arrest serving Chief Justice and Judges of High Court and Supreme Court, he should be trailed and penalized.

Hailing the decision he said that, Musharraf should have been trailed for what he did on October 1999 as well. 'Pervez Musharraf used to think that he could arrest whole of judiciary so I support this decision,' he added.

Aitzaz Ahsan said that the decision should have earlier been made about the step taken on October 12, 1999. He said that the verdict of the high treason case is important.

He said that Pervez Musharraf had twice arrested the judges. 'However, all accused will have to be held answerable,' he said.

Aitzaz Ahsan said that perhaps it was the first judgment in which court did as per demand of the law. 'The Doctrine of Necessity is still in vogue. The Supreme Court is also under the law,' he said.

He said that the arrest of judges and lawyers is not justified in any case.

Aitzaz Ahsan has expressed grief and sorrow over the incident occurred at Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC). He said that there was no justification for attacking the PIC to enhance the difficulties of the patients. 'It is evident from today's incident that had the government taken notice of the previous incidents this serious incident would have...

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