Islamabad, November twenty  pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a panel of 3 judges for a special court for the trial of former president Pervez Musharraf in an exceedingly lese majesty case.

The criteria for choice of the 3 judges was strictly supported seniority, the Associated Press of pakistan (APP) rumored.

The special court are headed by Justice Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud Arab from Sindh state supreme court, whereas Justice Syed Tahira Safdar of Balochistan state supreme court and Justice Yawar Ali of metropolis state supreme court are members. the govt has notified the assembly.

Earlier Tuesday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court received names of 5 state supreme court judges to initiate the case against Musharraf beneath Article 6 of the Constitution.

The nominative judges were islamabad High Court’s Noorul Haq N Qureshi, Yawar Ali of metropolis state supreme court, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud Arab of Sindh state supreme court, Syed Tahira Safdar of Balochistan state supreme court and Yahya Afridi of urban center state supreme court.

The names were forwarded to the Supreme Court registrar with service profiles, Geo News rumored.

Pakistan Supreme Court jurist Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had asked the high courts to forward the names of judges when the govt Mon asked the apex court to appoint a three-judge special assembly to undertake Musharraf for abrogating the constitution in 2007, officers said.

This is the primary time in Pakistan’s history that a former president can face a lese majesty trial.

Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan had proclaimed Sunday that the govt would formally place the previous military ruler unproven for imposing associate emergency in 2007.

Musharraf took power in an exceedingly bloodless coup in 1999 and suspended the constitution once he declared emergency in 2007.