General (retd) Pervez Musharraf — Photo: FileA special court's detailed verdict in the high treason case against General (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Thursday drew plenty of reactions from experts and analysts.The verdict, penned by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, ordered that the former military dictator "be hanged by his neck till he is dead". Reacting to the judgment, journalist Mehmal Sarfaraz said that while there may be problems with the choice of words used to convict the former president, there was no doubt that Musharraf was guilty of treason because he had subverted the Constitution. "While we all have a problem with the insanity of Justice Waqar Seth’s order/words, it doesn’t mean Musharraf is not guilty of treason. He is guilty of subverting the constitution. What we should do is abolish the death penalty altogether," she wrote on Twitter.Journalist Raza Rumi agreed with the verdict but said that "we should stick to the principle of saying no to barbaric punishments." Legal expert Reema Omer said that there were "many grounds for appeal" in the verdict and questioned Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth's "condemnable, unlawful direction on method of execution and death penalty in general".Senior journalist Hamid Mir said that it would be difficult to implement the verdict.'Page 66 of the special court verdict against Pervez Musharraf says that if a fugitive is found dead his corpse be dragged to the D-Chowk Islamabad and be hanged for 3 days but I think it’s difficult to implement the verdict because “fugitive” is still very strong," he wrote on Twitter. Senior journalist Omar Cheema said that the paragraph 66 "is not only objectionable, it is impossible for some lawyers that it was penned by Justice Waqar Seth".
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