Islamabad, May 2
A special court accepted former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s request on Thursday to postpone the hearing of a treason trial against him until after the month of Ramzan owing to his poor health.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Tahira Safdar adjourned the case hearing till June 12 after the former military dictator’s counsel Salman Safdar told the court that his client could not travel to Pakistan to attend the hearing due to his medical condition, Geo News reported.
The counsel, in an application on behalf of Musharraf, stated that despite “strong willingness and eagerness to return to Pakistan, life-threatening ailments and medical complications had forced him not to appear before the special court”.
“He is ashamed and apologetic for not being able to reach (in time). He is unable to walk,” the counsel said, adding that he had spent three days with Musharraf and was “shocked to see that he could barely even speak”.
“The doctors have said it is not safe for him to travel in this condition,” the counsel said. He then asked the court to postpone the hearing until after Ramzan. — IANS
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2IWJShB
via Today’s News Headlines
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