ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan yesterday issued the arrest warrant of former President Pervez Musharraf in a high treason case as he had not appeared in the court despite several orders, court officials said.
A three-member bench also rejected Musharraf’s request to allow him to go abroad for medical treatment as his name is included in the list of those people who cannot leave the country.
Musharraf was taken to a military hospital earlier this month when he was heading to the court to stand in the high treason case.
The former military president is still under treatment at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in the garrison city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad.
Water sources getting polluted
ISLAMABAD: Water sources of Islamabad are getting high pollution load due to discharge of domestic and industrial waste and leakages of municipal sewers.
According to data shared by Environmental Protection Agency Director General Asif Shuja Khan at a recent meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights, the capital has about 26 small and large freshwater streams, which take hill torrent-rainwater and pass through residential sectors to converge into two main streams when they leave Islamabad.
In these streams, the dissolved oxygen after mixing of waste was found as low as 0.9 mg/l and biological oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand were found as high as 63.5 mg/l and 162.5 mg/l respectively.
Briton appeals against death
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers for an elderly Briton sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy filed an appeal yesterday, saying the court had failed to consider “overwhelming” evidence of his mental illness.
Mohammad Asghar, a British-Pakistani with dual nationality, was sentenced by a court in Rawalpindi last week for writing letters claiming to be a prophet of Islam. British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is “deeply concerned” about Asghar, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in Britain in 2010, and officials have raised the matter with the Pakistani authorities. A lawyer for the 69-year-old said an appeal had been lodged with the Lahore High Court. AGENCIES
