INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pervez Musharraf is facing the treason trial for subverting the Pakistan constitution.Islamabad:
Pakistan's Interior Ministry has asked for the suspension of former President Pervez Musharraf's computerised national identity card (CNIC)
and passport, a media report said on Friday.In compliance with the order of a special court, the ministry on Thursday asked the National
Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports to carry out the suspensions, the Dawn
report said.After the suspension of his identity card and passport, Musharraf's bank accounts would be frozen and his international
travelling restricted.A special court hearing a high treason case against Musharraf had on March 8 directed the ministry to suspend his
passport and CNIC. The court had also ordered the ministry and other departments, divisions and agencies to take steps for the arrest of
Musharraf and attachment of his properties abroad.The former military ruler is facing the treason trial for subverting the constitution by
declaring a state of emergency in November 2007, Dawn news reported.Ending his self-imposed exile, the former military ruler returned to the
country in March 2013 and a ban was imposed on his travel abroad by courts the following month. After three years, in March 2016, he was
able to leave for Dubai seeking medical treatment and has since not returned.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
