Musharraf's treason trial

[Shamraz_Khan]

Re: Musharraf’s treason trial

@Silaaj

The entire case seems to be based on hollow grounds. Making a treason charge stick will be next to impossible, as there are so many tangents to it. It would have been far better if he was tried for something more tangible, like missing persons. The treason charge is pretty lame, and hollow from so many angles, specially in its current format, where 1999 is not being taken into account.

Well, I don’t want to get into nitty gritty of law, but 1) its usually the prosecutor who decides what charges a defended should face 2) you never let defendants lawyers take in charge of the trial process. In this case, its show trial, but not from prosecution’s side, but defends lawyers are the people who are doing all the roona dhona on tv.

If I was the prosecutor I would have asked a judge to issue a bench warrant for his arrest and asked police to produce him in court…no ifs or buts. And, if defense lawyers were doing drama, as they are in this case, I would have asked the trial judge to fire them and appoint a public defender. Sadly, in Pakistan nothing works the way it should. All these people just want to be on tv and longer this drama goes on more entertaining it will get.