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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf was sworn in as civilian president for another five year term. However, the legal community of Pakistan rejects his Presidency and says it is illegal act in the presence of Emergency and abandoned constitution.
The Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar administered the oath to him. His own oath was under the PCO (Provisional Constitution Order) and he is not the constitutional Chief Justice of Pakistan.
Pervez Musharraf, who was born on 11 August 1943 in New Delhi, stepped down as army chief after on Wednesday after serving as nine year on the post.
He came to power in a military coup d'état on October 12, 1999, ousting Nawaz Sharif, the elected Prime Minister, dismissed the national and provincial legislative assemblies, declared martial law, assumed the title of Chief Executive and became Pakistan's defacto head of government, thereby becoming the fourth Army chief of Pakistan to have assumed executive control.
Later in 2001, Musharraf appointed himself to the office of President of Pakistan.
On November 3, 2007, only days before a bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was to decide on a petition challenging the constitutional validity of his re-election as president in the controversial October 2007 elections, he, as Chief of Army Staff, suspended the constitution, jailed several justices and lawyers of the supreme court including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ordered the arrest of political dissidents and human rights activists, and shut down all private television channels.
He declared an emergency; however opposition says that, he had, in effect, imposed martial law in Pakistan. On November 24, 2007, his own man of the Pakistan Election
Commission confirmed his re-election as President.
Later President Pervez Musharraf announced that emergency would be lifted on December 16.
In his first televised address as civilian President, Pervez Musharraf said the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) would also be withdrawn and Constitution restored on December 16.
He said the general elections would be held on January 8th under the constitution in a “fair, free and transparent manner”.
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