Pak SC agrees to set up special tribunal to try Musharraf for high treason

The Pakistani Supreme Court has accepted the government's request to set up a special tribunal for the trial of former President retired General Pervez Musharraf for high treason.

A spokesman for the apex court said that chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has ordered all the high courts from the country's four provinces to put forward the names of any judges eligible for the three-member special tribunal, out of which three names will be chosen and forwarded to the government, Dawn News reports.

According to the report, Musharraf will be tried under Section 2 of the High Treason Punishment Act of the constitution.

The federal government also announced advocate Zulfiqar Abbas Naqvi as the special prosecutor in the treason case against Musharraf, the report added.

President of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Rana Muhammad Azeem had submitted a petition in the Supreme Court's Lahore Registry seeking the trial of the former president and his sub-ordinate generals under Article 6 of the Constitution for restraining the judges of the apex court from performing their duties.