The issue whether General Musharraf should be tried under Article 6 for abrogation of the Constitution is being heatedly debated across the country.
The apex court found his action of Nov, 2007 as illegal and unconstitutional, hence there should be no question or debate whether Musharraf is guilty of abrogating the Constitution.
Well before the court verdict, while still at the helm, Musharraf had himself confessed to breaching the constitution in an interview with BBC.
In wake of the prevalent political situation, when the nose was tightening around the neck of General Musharraf, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday tried to create a storm in the tea cup of political environment by calling Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to constitute a ‘truth and reconciliation commission’ to probe into the allegation of Jinnahpur conspiracy.
The call came following the claim of Lt-Gen (retd) Naseer Akhtar, a former corps commander of Karachi, and Brig Imtiaz Ahmed, a former director-general of the Intelligence Bureau, that the MQM had nothing to do with the ‘Jinnahpur conspiracy’. Altaf Hussain said the former Karachi corps commander and the former director-general of the intelligence bureau had made it clear that the allegation of the recovery of maps of Jinnahpur from the offices of the MQM in June 1992 was baseless and that the documents were
