Musharraf's lawyers claim receiving 'beheading' threats amid high-treason case

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's lawyers representing the high-treason case have claimed receiving beheading treats.

Musharraf's counsel Ahmed Raza Kasuri said the defence team feared for its safety and wanted the trial to be shifted to another location.

Kasuri made the request before the special court while presenting the threatening letter, allegedly sent by the Taliban.

According to the Express Tribune, the two-page handwritten letter, addressed to lawyers Kasuri, Sharifuddin Pirzada and Anwar Mansoor Khan, read: "Dear Sirs, we request that the three of you stop representing Musharraf otherwise we will destroy your children and behead all of you."

The letter also accused Musharraf of handing over hundreds of Muslims to the United States and thereby earned billions of dollars, becoming the richest person in the world.

It was signed by the 'people of South and North Waziristan' but its authenticity could not be verified, the report added.