Islamabad, Sept 24 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the government to maintain status quo on a farmhouse owned by former President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf in Chak Shahzad.
The order was issued by the single-member bench of Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan on a petition filed by Musharraf's wife Sheba.
An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) III Judge Shahid Rafiq while hearing Benazir Bhutto assassination case had ordered confiscation of both movable and immovable property and bank accounts of Pervez Musharraf after he failed to appear before the court and was declared absconder, the Dawn reports.
His property details provided to the court by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) included the Chak Shahzad farmhouse, a 1,000-square-yard plot in Gwadar and over Rs80 million in six different banks.
Terming the stay order as a first step towards saving the former president's property, Fawad Chaudhry, head of Musharraf's legal team, said: "We will prove that Musharraf is not an absconder and his property could not be attached or confiscated."
He insisted the FIA had provided wrong details to the ATC, adding that Musharraf had no property in Gawadar, and that there were three joint accounts of Musharraf and his spouse in banks with a total balance of 3.2 million rupees, including two million rupees of his pension.
Freezing of joint accounts of Pervez Musharraf and his spouse is beyond the court's jurisdiction, he added.
Following the orders of ATC regarding confiscation of the property of Musharraf, her wife Sehba Musharraf filed a civil suit in IHC to save the 5 acres' farmhouse of a value of Rs23.75 million.
She cited Capital Development Authority (CDA), her husband Pervez Musharraf, and Jamil Riffat (wife of Jamil Nishtar, the previous owner of the farm house) as defendants in the case. (ANI)
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