Islamabad, Jan 6
A court in Pakistan Monday rejected a petition seeking to restrain former president Pervez Musharraf from travelling abroad for medical treatment, a media report said.
Rejecting the petition, the Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqi advised petitioner Haroon Rasheed to file an application on this in the trial court, Dawn online reported.
Rasheed, who is the son of Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdul Rasheed who was killed in a security operation against the complex in 2007, urged the court Jan 3 to instruct the interior ministry to provide Musharraf with the best medical facilities in the country and bar him from leaving Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Musharraf's counsel Ahmad Raza Kasuri said Sunday his client was ill and will not appear in a special court for his high treason trial Monday.
The special court warned Jan 1 it could issue a warrant for the arrest of the former military ruler if he again failed to appear before it Jan 2, after Musharraf failed to show up for the second time in 10 days.
By:IANS