ISLAMABAD - The government has constituted a four-member committee to probe high treason charges against former President Pervez Musharraf under Article 6, moving a step closer to bringing the former army chief to account for desecrating the constitution.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the National Assembly that an FIA team had been made to probe charges that Musharraf committed treason while in office from 1999-2008. “It is a four-member committee or commission. This committee shall keep the interior ministry posted about the progress of the inquiry on a weekly basis and should submit its findings within a short space of time,” Nisar said.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Saud Ahmed has formed the investigative body comprising Agency’s directors and additional directors – Khalid Qureshi, Maqsoodul Hasan, Hussain Asghar and Azam Khan. Secretary Interior Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, the other day, had asked the FIA DG to constitute a committee for the purpose.
Khalid Qureshi is head of the FIA’s Counter Terrorism Wing (CTW) and has worked as the chief investigator in the high profile cases, including Benazir Bhutto assassination case and Mumbai attacks case. Hussain Asghar is the director of FIA’s Special Investigation Unit (SIU) and in-charge of Haj scam investigation team. Azam Khan is director of the legal branch of the agency.
A senior FIA official, wishing not to be named, said that terms of reference of the committee were being laid out to investigate this important case. He said the committee would keep interior secretary updated on the progress in the investigations.