The plane again
Monday, June 15, 2009
The News International, Pakistan
Monday, June 15, 2009
More than eight years after the controversy over the alleged ‘hijacking’ of a commercial plane carrying then COAS General Pervez Musharraf made headlines amidst the dramatic overthrowing of the second PML-N government, the issue has crept back out of dusty files. The Sindh government has placed before the apex court documents which reveal the details of the exile accord reached between the Sharifs and the military-led setup, allowing them at the end of 2000 to exchange prison cells for a Saudi palace. There had for years been debate over the contents of the deal, with the Sharifs claiming they went into ‘forced exile’, after being convicted in the plane diversion case by an Anti-Terrorism Court. Mian Nawaz Sharif had at the time refused to appeal a life sentence in the case, upheld by the Sindh High Court, on the basis that he lacked confidence that the judiciary which had taken oath under a PCO was independent.
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More than eight years after the controversy over the alleged ‘hijacking’ of a commercial plane carrying then COAS General Pervez Musharraf made headlines amidst the dramatic overthrowing of the second PML-N government, the issue has crept back out of dusty files. The Sindh government has placed before the apex court documents which reveal the details of the exile accord reached between the Sharifs and the military-led setup, allowing them at the end of 2000 to exchange prison cells for a Saudi palace. There had for years been debate over the contents of the deal, with the Sharifs claiming they went into ‘forced exile’, after being convicted in the plane diversion case by an Anti-Terrorism Court. Mian Nawaz Sharif had at the time refused to appeal a life sentence in the case, upheld by the Sindh High Court, on the basis that he lacked confidence that the judiciary which had taken oath under a PCO was independent.
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Labels: Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Plane Hijacking Case, PML(N)
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