Ex-servicemen to respect court’s verdict

RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: The Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Association (PESA) said on Monday that it would respect and accept court’s judgment in the case of former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf (retd).

In a statement, PESA President Lt-Gen Ali Kuli Khan (retd), SVP Vice Admiral Ahmad Tasnim (retd), Air Marshal Masood Akhtar (retd), Brig Mian Mahmud (retd), General Secretary Brig Syed Masudul Hassan (retd) and other members of the Executive Council said the PESA has full trust in the higher judiciary and considers the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of law and the Constitution in the country. 

The former military officers said that holding of Musharraf’s trial has been the basic demand of PESA from ‘day one’ of its founding. PESA stands by that basic demand, they said.  

According to them, piecemeal statements of some members of PESA appear to have created a wrong impression that there is some division within PESA about the trial of Gen Musharraf (retd. There are no differences among members on the issue, they added.