Pervez Musharraf reaches anti-terrorism court

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former army chief and president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has reached the anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad after spending his fist night in the police custody at the Islamabad Police Lines Headquarters, Geo News reported Saturday.

Pervez Musharraf will be presented in the in-charge judge ATC Kausar Abbas Zaidi’s court.

Though, Musharraf faces several cases, he was arrested in judges’ detention case on Friday. He is expected to record his statement after consulting his legal team. SSP Islamabad Police Yasin Farooq and other members of the investigation team had met the former president while his lawyer met him in the morning.

Names of 14 witnesses have been included in the incomplete challan (charge-sheet) against the former dictator.

The judicial magistrate, on Friday, had granted two-day transit remand to Pervez Musharraf while his Chak Shahzad farmhouse had been declared as sub-jail. After few hours he was transported to Police Lines Headquarters where he stayed at the officers’ mess.