Pakistani police stopped the former General Musharraf and arrest imposed

Islamabad Police on Friday arrested former general coup to  Pervez Musharraf when himself at a court in the capital Pakistan to seek a stay of the warrant of arrest against him, local media reported. According to the local channel Express , the security forces have taken to his home on the outskirts of Islamabad , where he was placed under house arrest. "I came to Pakistan for my own decision and I will face this problem because respect for justice," Musharraf told the channel Geo shortly after being arrested. At first, some media reported that Musharraf himself had been the one who presented himself on his own feet before the court seeking suspension of the order of arrest issued yesterday by the Islamabad High Court. coup Former President and former General Pervez Musharraf , who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, he escaped Thursday from the room in which judges of the Islamabad High Court had just dictate his arrest . Several local channels showed how Musharraf scuttled leveraging the hype created by his presence in court and left the room surrounded by his bodyguards facing no opposition from the security forces present abroad. After hearing the order of the judges, the former head of the army fled the court, and took refuge in his mansion "to drink coffee and smoke good cigars" , according to media defiantly told his lawyer Ahmad Raza Kasuri. The legal representatives of former coup presented this Thursday afternoon before the Supreme Courta petition calling for the suspension of the warrant , but the High Court has not ruled on the matter. The trial in which Musharraf has been arrested related to the final stage of his regime, when in November 2007 under his leadership stopped 60 judges , including the Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry which, according to the judges, would have violated the constitutional order. In addition to this cause, the former general faces another case of high treason in the Supreme and two others for complicity in the murder in 2006 of a nationalist leader of the western region of Balochistan, Nawab Bugti and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

To justice, for the first time

It is the first time that Pakistani courts are hesitant to order the arrest of a former head of the powerful military of China, whose current leadership keeps a scrupulous silence on the situation of Musharraf. Several analysts agree that the army chief asked the former general would not come to avoid having to face the trials that were pending for the disrepute that this could have for the armed forces. However, it is unknown what may be the reaction of the leadership of the Armed Forces to the unprecedented development of the trial against the military took a coup in 1999 and ruled the country until 2008. Musharraf's arrest adds to the mishap which earned him his recent disqualification of the elections next May after the electoral tribunals not considered suitable as a candidate for their legal problems. The former dictator is now trapped by the prosecution, which includes a ban on leaving the country , and the death threats by fundamentalist insurgency, which openly confronted Musharraf.