Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday (today) will take up a petition seeking removal of former president Pervez Musharraf’s name from the Exit Control List (ECL).

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali will hear the case.

On the other hand, Haroon-ur-Rashid Ghazi, plaintiff in the murder case of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, filed a miscellaneous writ petition in the SC on Monday through his counsel Tariq Asad. Ghazi has asked the court not to remove Musharraf’s name from the ECL because he was allegedly involved in the murder of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and the case was under trial. He said that a trial court on March 16 issued non-bailable warrants for Musharraf’s arrest in the Abdul Rashid Ghazi murder case.

“On the order of Musharraf, the operation of Lal Masjid was conducted in July 2007. As a result, hundreds of innocent students, including father of the petitioner and his grand mother lost their lives. Thousands of copies of Holy Quran were desecrated,” reads the petition. The petitioner said the murder case of Ghazi and his mother was registered against Musharraf on the directives of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

The petitioner said that Additional District and Sessions Judge Wajid Ali Khan ordered Musharraf several times to appear before the court, but he did not. He said that Musharraf even disregarded the orders of a judicial commission. In these circumstances, he said, Musharraf was seeking permission to go abroad for medical treatment. He said that Musharraf was trying to evade his judicial trial.