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Pervez Musharraf, former president of Pakistan, sentenced to death for treason
Fox ^ | Dec. 17, 2019

Posted on 12/17/2019 3:46:53 AM PST by nuconvert

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president who has been living outside the country, was sentenced to death in absentia Tuesday on charges of high treason stemming from his decision to suspend the constitution and detain judges in 2007.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2007; afghanistan; deathsentence; gwb; inabsentia; india; kashmir; musharraf; pakistan; pervezmusharraf; rop; treason
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To: Sacajaweau

Was that when he built Osmaa no a house so he could hide


21 posted on 12/17/2019 5:19:33 AM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Do you think he had a choice?


22 posted on 12/17/2019 5:26:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: eartick; bitt; little jeremiah; generally; a little elbow grease; Liz

excerpt from the piece:

Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup but was forced to step down in 2008. The charges have been in place since 2013 and he was allowed to leave on bail in 2016 to seek medical treatment abroad.

In an infamous purge in 2007, Musharraf imposed a state of emergency and placed several key judges under house arrest in the capital, Islamabad, and elsewhere in Pakistan.

But the move to suspend the constitution backfired and led to widespread protests by the country’s powerful legal community. Musharraf left the country soon after.

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Musharraf was in power from 1999 through 2007.

So how does this time line fit with Barack Hussein bin Soetoro’s all expense paid “spring break” pilgrimage to Pakistan with shoom’s college roomie?


23 posted on 12/17/2019 5:31:24 AM PST by thinden
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To: nuconvert

Detain judges you say? Hmmmm…...


24 posted on 12/17/2019 5:50:15 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: phothus

I used to work with a Pakistani who told me that he has absolutely no hope for that country.


25 posted on 12/17/2019 5:50:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: nuconvert

Hey, Pervy:

We’ll take you in if we can deport all the scumbags here that committed treason against us to Pakistan. Deal?


26 posted on 12/17/2019 6:03:27 AM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: Cronos
Musharaff led a coup against an elected government. that’s not “the same things lincoln did”

Depends which perspective you look at it from.

27 posted on 12/17/2019 6:05:48 AM PST by chud
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To: nuconvert

Being President of Pakistan is typically not a job you retire from. Most are assasinated - Bhutto (and her father), Haq to name a couple - and now this.


28 posted on 12/17/2019 6:14:21 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: cld51860

How long before this reminds the Democratic of the seriousness of their own treason.


29 posted on 12/17/2019 6:18:20 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"Pakistan has to be one of the biggest sh*t holes in the world."

It is.
And consider this, they have nukes.

30 posted on 12/17/2019 6:32:11 AM PST by StormEye
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To: Kudsman

Since they are so in love with the laws of others over our own Constitution - try them in Pakistan...


31 posted on 12/17/2019 6:58:36 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: chud

Musharaff led a coup against an elected government. that’s not “the same things lincoln did”

Depends which perspective you look at it from.

Like either reality or fantasy?


32 posted on 12/17/2019 7:10:59 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: chud
A relativistic approach, to understanding the issue, IMO. Brings to mind a famous quote by Lincoln:

” How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

33 posted on 12/17/2019 7:11:46 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: nuconvert
Bush should have taken this godfather of the Taliban out and put troops in Pakistan a week after 9/11, seized their nukes and waterboarded the entire Paki security services until they gave up bin Laden's location. Instead he kissed his filthy butt. Disgusting.


34 posted on 12/17/2019 7:44:10 AM PST by montag813
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To: rlmorel

“” How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” “

SO, I guess Lincoln would agree that calling yourself a woman when you’re really a man doesn’t make you a woman.


35 posted on 12/17/2019 7:50:56 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: phothus

any illusion that there is less corruption in DC than in any given third-world shithole is just that, an illusion

DC has them all beat - it has it down to a science. A very efficient science.


36 posted on 12/17/2019 8:02:46 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: nuconvert

It’s a sad day when Pakistani politicians are more accountable the rule of law than American ones.


37 posted on 12/17/2019 8:15:15 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: nuconvert

Hmmmmmmmmmm, that gives me an idea!


38 posted on 12/17/2019 8:15:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sacajaweau
Somehow I remember him as a good guy.

He was never that.

39 posted on 12/17/2019 8:20:01 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s more how I remember him than not.


40 posted on 12/17/2019 9:06:54 AM PST by heshtesh
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