A special court trying former army chief and President Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of the Constitution on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of case till August 6 (today). A three-member bench led by Justice Faisal Arab and comprising Justice Tahira Safdar and Justice Yawar Ali resumed the hearing of Musharraf's treason trial after a month.
Defence counsel Dr Farogh Nasim cross-examined a prosecution witness, Khalid Rasool, who had recorded his statement before the court during the last hearing. Khalid Rasool was appointed Deputy Director in Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on November 19, 2013 and was inducted in the team investigating the promulgation of emergency in the country on November 3, 2007.
During the last hearing of the case on July 9, 2014, Khalid Rasool submitted that being an investigation team member he gathered relevant documents from the concerned departments and then handed them over to the head of the investigation team, Khalid Qurashi. On Tuesday, the defence asked him to identify about the circle of FIA or in the police station where a complaint against Pervez Musharraf was lodged. He, however, failed to answer that question.
The prosecutor, Mohammad Akram Sheikh, told the court that the matter in hand has nothing to do with the registration of the complaint in a police station or in a circle of the FIA. To which, the counsel for Musharraf urged the court to stop the process of cross-examination at this stage, saying it needs to be decided whether or not a complaint under Article 6 has to be registered before further adjudicating the matter.
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