Shazia Mubashar, who has a four-year-old son in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail with her, has reportedly been denied all legal rights admissible to under-trial prisoners.
ISLAMABAD: At a time when many female prisoners in Pakistan are being released on bail, a woman arrested over an assassination attempt on President Pervez
Musharraf is still serving time in jail despite her acquittal by a military court, media reports said on Thursday.
Shazia Mubashar, who has a four-year-old son in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail with her, has reportedly been denied all legal rights admissible to under-trial prisoners.
Mubashir was arrested in December 2003 for alleged involvement in a bid on Musharraf's life but was acquitted by a military court at Attock Fort in August 2005. The court
handed her over to Civil Lines Police for subsequent release.
The police got a 14-day remand for Mubashar from special judge of Anti-Terrorist Court No 1, Rawalpindi on the same FIR on which the military court acquitted her and has
been getting subsequent extensions to her remand for the past year in violation of the Criminal Procedures Code, The Daily Times reported. The present remand expires on August 5.
Mubashir's father has served a legal notice to the senior suprintendent of Adiala Jail asking him to explain within five days why his daughter has not been released, or
face a constitutional petition against him in court.
"At a time when women prisoners are being released on bail, Shazia's detention questions the sincerity of our rulers and judiciary. She is serving time on the same FIR she was acquitted on by the military court," said the attorney of Mubashir's father Hashmat Habib.
"She has been declared innocent but is still behind bars for the last three years. Her four-year-old son has spent most of his life in prison," he said, adding the prison
authorities were treating it as a "very high profile case" because it concerned President Musharraf.
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