Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in Pakistan
Read on the website Vestnik KavkazaA Pakistani court sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution, government officials said.
"Pervez Musharraf has been found guilty of Article 6 for violation of the constitution of Pakistan," government law officer Salman Nadeem said.
The court’s full ruling was not available but it said in a summary it had analyzed complaints, records, arguments and facts in the case and had reached a majority verdict, with two of the three judges giving the decision against Musharraf, Reuters reported.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an anti-terrorism court hearing the high treason case.