This is apropos a Business Recorder editorial "Musharraf's sentence" carried by the newspaper yesterday. I fully endorse the newspaper's conclusion that "When historians look back at this judgement in 2019, they could be tempted to cast it as a turning point in Pakistan's history of repeated military coups and interventions and their validation by the superior judiciary and parliament. Certainly this verdict holds the promise of giving pause for thought to any future military coup maker."
The special court's verdict will have made a historic symbolic contribution to the long standing struggle for democracy, constitutional rule, and civilian supremacy. However, the head judge of special court can never offer a plausible answer or justification in relation to 'hang him in the streets' rider that he added to Musharraf sentence. Why has he done that?
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