Musharraf following Fujimori

It was the first prison sentence handed down for Fujimori, 69, who ruled Peru from 1990 to 2000, before fleeing to Japan, his ancestral homeland, as his government collapsed. He faced three other trials on charges that include murder, kidnapping and corruption. He faced up to thirty years in prison if convicted for his alleged role in the killings, which came amid a government crackdown on a bloody Maoist insurgency. However he got bailed out by another judge after which he fled the country for Japan.

The extraordinary tale of now fugitive former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori took a strange twist in November 2005 when he arrived unexpectedly in Chile. Wanted on 21 Peruvian and Interpol warrants for corruption, murder and human rights abuses, Fujimori had remained free courtesy of the Japanese government, which had welcomed him as a prodigal son in 2000 and subsequently blocked his extradition. Then, almost five years to the day after he fled Peru for Japan and faxed his resignation from the presidency - a getaway seen by many Peruvians as both shameless and traitorous - Fujimori appeared in Chile on a tourist visa, vowing to return to Peru to run for president in April 2006. Instead he was promptly arrested, and is now fighting extradition. Peru's National Election Board formally rejected his bid on January 10, 2006.

The list of wrongdoings against Musharraf "prima facie" would be very long and clearly more diversified than the delicts framed against Alberto Fujimore; just to give the high points of an impeachment would be the following substantive wrong doings:

"    Subversion of the constitution as envisaged by Article 6 thereof

"    Murder of many political leaders such as Nawab Akbar Bugti

"    Abuse of administrative powers of various kinds during tenure leading to the infliction of injury to a number of persons

"    Sabotaging the rights of liberty of citizens by forced disappearances of hundreds of people

"    Unlawful; detention of many lawyers without an accusation of any kind

"    Usurping the rights of people though deprivation of their constitutional and international human rights

"    Squandering of national funds by his lavish expenses on his own lifestyle in which the most recent was his stay in London after the Davos meeting. It is pertinent to also articulate that Musharraf is also prima facie guilty of many international wrongs and delicts.

For his abusing the judiciary the list of his wrongs is really chilling! Initially when Zafar Ali Shah case was on in which his initial coup was challenged, he dismissed on January 25, 2000 Chief Justice Siddique along with six senior most judges of the Supreme Court, all from Sindh, to be replaced by Justice Irshad Hasan Khan who went on to serve the general faithfully for the next many years.

Against the set of judges who constituted the nations Supreme Court after that terrible period beginning with 2000 his actions since March 2007 have brought worldwide infamy to this country. An indictment for violation of Article 6 could easily be grounded on the following specifics: