A surprise from Nisar: govt to prosecute Musharraf for treason

ISLAMABAD: On a day when the people of Rawalpindi were anxiously waiting for an official announcement about the state of curfew in their city, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan broke, out of the blue, a jaw-dropping story about his government's decision to formally prosecute former president General Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of the Constitution.



Media personnel waited with bated breath at a hurriedly called press conference by the interior minister on Sunday evening to give details about Friday night's sectarian violence which forced the government to impose a curfew in the garrison city.

And as if this wasn't enough to grab and divert the media attention which was intensively focused on the sectarian killings, Chaudhry Nisar also announced the formation of a three-member FIA committee to investigate what is known as the Asghar Khan case, distribution of money by agencies among politicians for rigging the 1990 general elections.

The Supreme Court had already given a ruling in the case in October 2012, but the previous PPP government virtually sat on it. Analysts and the opposition termed the government's move a diversionary tactic to cover up its failure to douse the flame of sectarian killings on the Ashura day despite the so-called elaborated security arrangements made by the government across the country.

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