Pakistan's Supreme Court affirmed the late former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's death sentence on Wednesday, a decision initially imposed by a special court in 2019 in the high treason case.
A four-member bench, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa and including Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Aminuddin Khan, and Justice Athar Minallah, conducted the hearing.
The reserved verdict on Musharraf's appeal against the death sentence was initially handed to him during the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party's tenure but was declared ineffective due to non-compliance.
The case stemmed from his "unconstitutional" decision to impose an emergency in November 2007.
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The chief architect of the Kargil War in 1999 and Pakistan's last military ruler, Musharraf, passed away on February 5 in Dubai after a prolonged illness.
The 79-year-old former president had been undergoing treatment for amyloidosis in Dubai and had been living in the UAE since 2016, opting for self-exile to avoid criminal charges back home.
