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Pakistan court rejects plea against
Musharraf's assets confiscation
Saturday March 02, 2013 05:45:44 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A Pakistani
anti-terrorism court Saturday rejected an application against the
confiscation of former president Pervez Musharraf's property and
freezing of his bank accounts for his failure to appear before it
in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, court
officials said.
The court has already declared the former military president an
"absconder" in the 2007 Bhutto assassination case as he has not
agreed to clarify his position in court despite several notices
and arrest warrants, reported Xinhua.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had requested the court to
summon Musharraf, who was president at the time of the
assassination, and has refused a request to cooperate in the
investigation into Bhutto's death.
The court had ordered confiscation of Musharraf's property and
freezing of his bank accounts after he failed to appear and to
clarify his position as to why his government had failed to
provide security for Benazir Bhutto.
The former president's wife Sehba Musharraf, had filed a petition
for de-freezing Musharraf's assets.
She had argued in her petition that a big house in Islamabad is in
her name and was gifted by her husband and the bank accounts are
registered on the name of a trust for helping flood affected
people.
The court remarked Saturday that its previous decision to freeze
the assets and bank accounts of Pervez Musharraf was a correct
verdict.
Sehba Musharraf's lawyer, Ilyas Siddiqui, could not present the
record of proof of her income deposited in the couple's joint bank
accounts, thus the court upheld its earlier decision to seize
Musharraf's assets and disposed of the petition.
The court's delivered its verdict a day after Musharraf announced
to end his nearly four-year self-exile and to return home this
month to take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Musharraf, 69, has been living in exile in Britain and the UAE
since he resigned as the president in August 2008, fearing
impeachment by the parliament.
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