2007 emergency: Musharraf's lawyers list those who abetted it

Former President retired Gen Pervez Musharraf's legal team drew up a list of eight meetings that the former President of Pakistan held with political and military leaders prior to imposing emergency and the sacking of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the then chief justice of Pakistan in 2007.

The list challenged the claims made by the prosecution earlier in which it said that it could not obtain the details of meetings that Musharraf held before Nov 3.

Dawn quoted Musharraf's counsel, Advocate Faisal Hussain as saying that the list will be submitted to the court at an appropriate time and after consultations.

According to the Pakistani daily, the list of those who met Musharraf between the last week of October and Nov 3 includes the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), two services chiefs, the then Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, several corps commanders, governors and heads of intelligence agencies amongst others.

The list showed that a day before he imposed emergency, Musharraf held a meeting with the then Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the vice chief of army staff, National Security Council Adviser Tariq Aziz and the heads of intelligence agencies like, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

In 2009, the Supreme Court had declared the imposition of emergency by Musharraf on Nov 3, 2007 illegal and unconstitutional.