Pervez Musharraf to express no-confidence in Pakistan Chief Justice

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf will express no-confidence in Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry when a petition comes up for hearing before the Supreme Court to seek action against him under Article 6 of the Constitution on the charge of flouting the basic law, according to a leader of Musharraf's APML party.

A three-judge bench, headed by CJP Chaudhry, is scheduled to take up on Monday a petition moved by a Rawalpindi lawyer, reports The Nation.

According to Advocate Ahmed Raza Kasuri, Musharraf was not the 'focus' of the petition but was part of what he called collateral proceedings. In this case, he said, the apex court could not give directions to the government to initiate proceedings against the former president.

Kasuri said the court should summon all those, including Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and other services chiefs, the chief ministers and the cabinet ministers who had approved the decision of then president Musharraf.

Meanwhile, PML-N Information Secretary Senator Mushahidullah Khan said Musharraf should be brought to justice on account of all his misdoings. He also alleged that it was the former president who had handed over Dr Afia Siddiqui to the United States, a charge Musharraf vehemently denies.