Geo News gets document on 2007 Musharraf emergency

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz had endorsed emergency of November, 3, 2007 during a cabinet meeting, revealed a document available with Geo News.

According to the document, the then prime minister and his cabinet endorsed the emergency on November 6, three days after its declaration by the former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf.

The document got through cabinet secretariat, revealed that Aziz told his cabinet members that the emergency was necessary given the law and order situation and judicial activism.

During the meeting, prime minister’s advisor on Law and Justice Sharifuddin Peerzada had briefed the cabinet about the background of the declaration of emergency.