PESHAWAR: A four-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday banned former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections for the rest of his life for abrogating the country’s constitution.
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The verdict came in response to an appeal Musharraf filed over the rejection of his nomination papers for NA-32 seat in Chitral district. Headed by Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and including Justice Malik Manzoor, Justice Syed Afsar Shah and Justice Ikramullah, the bench ruled that since Musharraf had abrogated the constitution twice, he could not be allowed to contest elections either for the National Assembly or the Senate.
A spokesman for Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League party, Muhammad Amjad, was circumspect. “We can challenge it,” he told AFP. The chief justice said Musharraf had “imposed an illegal emergency and targeted the judiciary, therefore, the court was imposing a life-time ban on the retired general, barring him from contesting polls for the national and provincial assemblies as well as the Senate.” “We are of the considered view that a person (Musharraf) who had got not a little respect from the whole judiciary and just now how he can pass through small campus of articles 62 and 63 of the constitution.
He appointed the successor of judges after November 3, 2007, without looking for eligibility criteria to fill up the gap to get favourable judgement for its own cause, in which he successfully got judgement in his favour to contest presidential election,” said the bench judgement.
It said that he arranged the plot for the slot of president after destroying the sacred institution of judiciary, which clearly “loudly tells he is a man of opportunities and has no respect for the law of the land and constitution, therefore, he has no face to show, he is ineligible for contesting the election on any constituency in the country”. The four-member bench states in its judgement, “It is high time if the nation wished to survive as independent nation, we should bury the doctrine of necessities once and for all, whether it is superior judiciary or parliament. So far much safety wall has been provided in judges’ oath and code of conduct.”
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