Some people with questionable knowledge became judges: Fawad Chaudhry.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that some people with questionable knowledge and credibility became judges.

The federal minister's remarks came a few hours after a special court hearing the high treason case against General (r) Pervez Musharraf issued the verdict.

"After the restoration of Iftikhar Chaudhry, some people with questionable knowledge and credibility became judges," he said.

He said that people who were attempting to play with fire didn't know that they could get burned.

"They neither have the capability to select words nor issue statements," he said.

Chaudhry said that it was not new that people did not learn lessons from history.

Pakistan Peoples Party leader and veteran lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan said that he "is astonished at the barbaric nature" of death punishment handed to General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, and suggested that the judge who authored the verdict be tried in the Supreme Judicial Council.

'I am generally against the death punishment. It is an irreversible punishment so I am one of those who do not like capital punishment. Having said that, it cannot be denied how Musharraf had arrested judges and appointed PCO judges. He mutinied against the state. He had done it in 1999 as well,' Ahsan told Geo News.

Ahsan questioned if Justice Seth was fit to arbitrate and called for legal action against him

"The judge who ordered that Musharraf be dragged at D-chowk and displayed for three days is a nonsensical decision. This was done by the Taliban. This was done hundreds of years ago. It cannot happen now. It calls for a case in the Supreme Judicial Council whether the judge is even fit [to arbitrate]," he said.

"Pervez Musharraf was arrogant but...