Adeel
Founder
Updated at: 2150 PST, Thursday, April 30, 2009
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Babar Awan said on Thursday that High Treason Punishment Act 1973 was a dead letter as it could not be implemented and always used as a political slogan for political reconciliation.
Talking to newsmen in premises of the Supreme Court, he said that for conducting the trial of high treason cases, the courts of sessions judge special were already existed in the country where the cases of Pakistan Penal Code, anti-terrorists, anti-narcotics, anti-corruption and Hudood cases were heard and action taken under the Criminal Procedural Code (CrPC).
He said that if a person was found guilty of sabotaging or suspending the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, he was liable to death sentence. According to Section 2-A of High Treason Act of 1973, Gen. Ayub sabotaged the 1956 Constitution and transferred powers to Gen. Yahya instead of Speaker of the Assembly.
A high treason case against Ayub Khan can also be initiated. Similarly, allegation can be levelled against Gen. Zia ul Haq and Pervez Musharraf for sabotaging the Constitution.
The Constitution is very much clear and self-explanatory, which cannot be chewed and minced, he added.
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Babar Awan said on Thursday that High Treason Punishment Act 1973 was a dead letter as it could not be implemented and always used as a political slogan for political reconciliation.
Talking to newsmen in premises of the Supreme Court, he said that for conducting the trial of high treason cases, the courts of sessions judge special were already existed in the country where the cases of Pakistan Penal Code, anti-terrorists, anti-narcotics, anti-corruption and Hudood cases were heard and action taken under the Criminal Procedural Code (CrPC).
He said that if a person was found guilty of sabotaging or suspending the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, he was liable to death sentence. According to Section 2-A of High Treason Act of 1973, Gen. Ayub sabotaged the 1956 Constitution and transferred powers to Gen. Yahya instead of Speaker of the Assembly.
A high treason case against Ayub Khan can also be initiated. Similarly, allegation can be levelled against Gen. Zia ul Haq and Pervez Musharraf for sabotaging the Constitution.
The Constitution is very much clear and self-explanatory, which cannot be chewed and minced, he added.
