ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court, after 10 years, disposed of former army chief General Pervez Musharraf’s (retired) appeal against the Peshawar High Court (PHC)’s verdict.

A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ayesha A Malik and Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, on Thursday, heard the ex-president’s appeal against rejections of his nomination papers.

Additional Attorney General informed the bench that Pervez Musharraf had died on February 5, this year, at a hospital in Dubai after a prolonged illness. In view of that the bench disposed of the case.

A four-member larger bench of the PHC, headed by the then chief justice, in April 2013 had dismissed Musharraf’s appeal against his disqualification from the elections and the rejection of his nomination papers by returning officer, and declared ex-COAS ineligible to contest elections for life.

The court took the decision based on the imposition of military rule by the former army chief and president.

A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, on January 21, 2022 dismissed Musharraf’s appeal against the rejection of his nomination paper for contesting election on National Assembly seat from Karachi by the Sindh High Court for being infructuous.

The bench had directed the SC office to fix the second appeal against the PHC before a larger bench, which was fixed on July 20, 2023.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2023