The PML-N on Tuesday observed the black day, organised a rally and held a number of protest meetings against the toppling of Nawaz government by former President Pervez Musharraf On October 12, 1999. The main meeting was held in Raza hall under the chairmanship of Memona Hashmi, MNA. A big rally was organised by PML-N leader Malik Ashid Ali Shujra, Tariq Amir Abbasi, Quraban Fatima, Afsheen butt,Arshad Boota. Participants burnt the effigy of Musharraf.
The speakers called for the trial of Musharraf under Article-6 of the Constitution for imposing martial law twice, subverting the Constitution and violating the oath taken by him as the chief of the army staff. They urged the government to bring Musharraf back to Pakistan through Interpol for a trial. It also demanded the formation of a commission to probe the Kargil misadventure.
The party leaders called for penalising Musharraf for the human rights violations in lieu of NRO, abductions, massacre, disappeared people and putting curbs on the media. They demanded an independent commission to probe the matter, which he admitted in his book 'In the Line of Fire' with a special reference to his revelations that he had been receiving a handful amount mounting to billions of US dollars for the war against terror and handing over the people to the US which are commonly described as missing persons.
Memona Hashmi, MNA said Musharraf kept the elected prime minister (Muhammad Nawaz Sharif) behind bars in the Attock Fort, (illegally) detained judges of the superior courts (Supreme Court and High Courts) with their family members and imposed (military) dictatorship at gunpoint. "This way, he acted against the Constitution of Pakistan in 1999, overthrew an elected government and dissolved assemblies thus being liable to be tried for high treason under Article-6 of the Constitution", the document reads, an offence punishable with capital punishment.
She said, "Musharraf violated the Constitution again on 3rd November, 2007, when he imposed emergency, which has been termed as mini-martial law and destroyed judiciary in the country. "After illegally taking over power, she said, Musharraf committed serious crimes against the Constitution, the state and the people of Pakistan.
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