LAHORE: Former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Friday said that the verdict of a special court to hang former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf has lowered the morale of Pakistan Army.
In a statement following the treason case decision, the PML-Q president said that the judgment has affected the country’s image across the world.
The special court released its detailed verdict in the high treason case against Musharraf on Thursday, wherein it was stated that the former president must be arrested and hanged to death and if he dies before the sentence is executed, his body “must be dragged to D Chowk” of the federal capital and “hanged for three days”.
According to the High Treason (Punishment) Act, 1973, “any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or hold in abeyance, or attempts or conspires to abrogate or subvert or suspend or hold in abeyance the Constitution by use of force or show force or by any other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason.”
The sentence for high treason is death or life imprisonment.
