WILL GEN MUSHARRAF APPEAR ON 31 MARCH BEFORE THE SPECIAL COURT? Whether General (Rtd) Pervez Musharraf, former President of Pakistan would appear before the special court on 31st March 2014? His attendance before the special court on the said date is a big question mark, which only an astrologer can answer. As to why his presence is a question mark, can be conveniently be answered as follows: A. Apparently, the civilian government and armed forces do not seem to be on the same page, as far as General Pervez Musharraf’s prosecution under Article 6, read with section 2 of the High Treason (punishment) Act 1973, is concerned. B. Since it will be derogatory to the high profile image of the armed forces of Pakistan, they will be recalcitrant to the idea of their former Army Chief to be indicted under Article 6 of the constitution, commonly attributed, as ‘Ghaddari Case’. C. Whether serving or retired, can armed forces personnel conceive that a former Chief of Army Staff, could be ‘Gaddar-e-Millat’? The term ‘Gaddar’ can’t be digested by the armed forces for their former Chief, whose more than fourty years of colour service was unblemished, brilliant and valiant and it also included participation in three wars against India…and who defended the ideological and geographical frontiers of Pakistan, at the pearl of his life. D. Article 6 of the constitution is a “sword of Damocles”, which is a ‘hanging sword’ and not a ‘falling sword’, thus it is to be used as a deterrence. A fear is more important than the actual showdown. Hence, it will expose the utility and the significance of Article 6. Thus, wisdom demands that its application should be meticulously avoided. Instead of consolidating the country, it will create fissures between peoples from various walks of life. E. State craft has got two frontiers, power and prudence; sometimes state uses power to avoid a crisis and sometimes prudence is applied to deal with a critical situation. The person heading the state should either be wisdom personified himself, or he should solicit prudence from his advisors. But where both are devoid of prudence, the government eventually collapses, like a house of cards, as it happened, in two early regimes of Mian Nawaz Sharif. So to avoid the “hat trick” of failure, the Nawaz Sharif government should withdraw the present complaint against Gen Musharraf, under aricle 6, of the constitution. This will ensure a Win-Win, situation. SAHIBZADA AHMED RAZA KHAN QASURI CHIEF CO-ORDINATOR, ALL PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE & LEAD DEFENCE COUNSEL OF GEN MUSHARRAF. 25th March, 2014
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:25:14 +0000
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