An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Saturday rejected an application filed by Sehba Musharraf, wife of former president General Pervez Musharraf (Retd), against the confiscation and freezing of her husband's properties and bank accounts for his failure to appear before the court in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
The ATC Judge, Chaudhry Habibur Rehman, heard the petition filed by Sehba Musharraf and remarked that its previous decision to freeze the assets and bank accounts of Musharraf was a correct verdict, as Sehba Musharraf's lawyer, Ilyas Siddiqui, could not present the record of proof of her income deposited in the couple's joint bank accounts.
Sehba Musharraf, prayed in her petition that a big house in Islamabad is on her name and was gifted by her husband to her and the bank accounts are registered on the name of a trust for the help of flood-affected people. The ATC had declared Musharraf as absconder in August 2011 and had ordered his assets to be frozen when he did not appear in the court. Musharraf was proclaimed an offender in the Benazir Bhutto murder case by the Anti-Terrorism Court in 2011. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had requested the court to summon Musharraf, who was President at the time of Benazir assassination.
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