Pakistan's Supreme Court has received names of five high court judges to initiate the high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf, a media report said Tuesday.
The names were forwarded to the Supreme Court registrar with service profiles, Geo News reported.
Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had asked the high courts to forward the names of judges after the government Monday asked the apex court to appoint a three-judge special tribunal to try Musharraf for abrogating the constitution in 2007, officials said.
This is the first time in Pakistan's history that a former president will face a high treason trial.
Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan had announced Sunday that the government would formally put the former military ruler on trial for imposing an emergency in 2007.
Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and suspended the constitution when he declared an emergency in 2007.
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