{"id":2560,"date":"2019-12-17T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:05:16","slug":"pervez-musharraf-sentenced-to-death-for-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2019\/12\/17\/pervez-musharraf-sentenced-to-death-for-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan&#8217;s former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and served as the country&#8217;s president from 2001 to 2008.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in Dubai after being allowed to leave the country for medical treatment in 2016.<br \/>\nThe charge relates to Gen Musharraf&#8217;s suspension of the constitution in 2007, when he imposed emergency rule in a move intended to extend his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>He issued a video statement from a hospital bed earlier this month, describing the case against him as &#8220;baseless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Musharraf is the first military ruler to ever stand trial in Pakistan for overruling the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was announced Tuesday with a 2-1 majority. In November 2007, Gen Musharraf suspended the constitution and imposed emergency rule &#8211; a move which sparked protests. He <em>resigned in 2008 to avoid the threat of impeachment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan&#8217;s former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad. The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013. Gen Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 and served as the country&#8217;s president from 2001 to 2008. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}