INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Islamabad: Previous president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is suffering from rare heart disease cardiac amyloidosis and his chemo therapy
was underway, his lawyer informed the court on Thursday.A special court hearing the high treason case Thursday summoned Pervez Musharraf on
May 2, to record his statement and traceed to pass an order if the accused failed to seem.The court would issue an appropriate order
regarding accused testimony if the former president failed to seem on next date of hearing, the judge observed.Musharraf counsel Suleman
Safdar Advocate informed the court that his client wanted to seem before the court on May 13
The former president was suffering from rare heart disease and his chemo therapy was underway.It was essential for his client to stay in
hospital for eight hours in a day for chemo therapy, he further contended.He said Pervez Musharraf was also suffering from a problem of
spine after he fell down in washroom.At this, Justice Tahira Safdar commented ‘that time there must be month of Ramazan where the
availability of judges was difficult.& If the former president was serious in return then he could come on May 2, as well.The court also
handed over a questionnaire under 342 to Musharraf counsel.Musharraf lawyer requested the court to supply total record of high treason case
against his client.To this, the court asked the counsel to submit a proper application in this regard.Suleman Safdar added that his client
was much an absconder rather the federal government allowed him to travel for medical treatment.Justice Nazer Akber observed that the court
had famous these arguments
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