{"id":1616,"date":"2019-12-17T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2019-12-19T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:23:56","slug":"former-pakistani-president-sentenced-to-death-for-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Former Pakistani President Sentenced to Death for Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pakistani special court sentences former president Pervez Musharraf to death in high treason case<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1619\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-image-1619 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5df887b785f54039c025a05e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5df887b785f54039c025a05e.jpg 980w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5df887b785f54039c025a05e-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5df887b785f54039c025a05e-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO. Pervez Musharraf gestures during an interview with AFP in 2014. \u00a9 AFP \/ Asif Hassan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s former president Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death in a high treason case. The retired general was tried in absentia after leaving the country several years ago to undergo medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The special court in Islamabad backed capital punishment in a split 2-1 vote. Musharraf, who held the power in Pakistan for a decade, was accused of subverting the Pakistani constitution to keep power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The court announced its verdict on Tuesday after a weeks-long delay as the Pakistani government and Musharraf\u2019s defense team made a last-ditch attempt to prolong the case, which was launched in 2013. The decision is subject to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Musharraf complained from a hospital bed in Dubai, where he&#8217;s been living in recent years, that his trial was unfair. The video has been broadcast by Pakistani media.\u00a0He urged\u00a0the court to take a statement from him at the hospital and confirm the state of his health.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pervaiz Musharaf\u2019s important message \u2014 recorded just now \u2014 he seems at a very very critical condition ! May Allah give him health <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F5OqsFRWHS\">pic.twitter.com\/F5OqsFRWHS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kamran Shahid (@FrontlineKamran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrontlineKamran\/status\/1201934650832310272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musharraf has been mostly living in exile since losing power in 2008. He returned to Pakistan in 2013 to take part in a general election, but was disqualified and put under house arrest on charges related to his decision to impose a state of emergency in 2007. The following year, he was allowed to leave the country again to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The former Pakistani leader says his prosecution is politically motivated and that his only goal was to serve Pakistan as a military commander and later as president. Two weeks ago, he was sent to a hospital in Dubai after reportedly suffering heart and blood pressure problems.<\/p>\n<p>He remains a controversial figure in Pakistan. Critics say Musharraf undermined democracy when he staged a bloodless military coup in 1999 and concentrated too much power in his own hands. Public pressure stopped him from entrenching further in 2007, when he suspended the constitution for six weeks to seek re-election. Musharraf admitted he opened up the country to the CIA\u2019s anti-terror drone operations, which have caused scores of civilian deaths, and have since been banned by Pakistan\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters view him as a defender of Pakistani interests, who stood up to Islamist militants, built up Pakistani nuclear deterrence vis-\u00e0-vis India, and improved women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/476065-musharraf-death-sentence-treason\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/476065-musharraf-death-sentence-treason\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani special court sentences former president Pervez Musharraf to death in high treason case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}