In the Media: EFSAS comments on the death sentence of former military ruler General Musharraf
The high treason trial of the former military dictator related not to his ousting of Sharif in 1999, at which time the Pakistani higher judiciary preferred to legitimize Musharraf’s actions in the hope of sharing in the spoils of power, but to Musharraf’s imposition of a state of emergency and placement of several senior judges under house arrest.