Pakistan’s ministry of internal affairs on Thursday asked the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Directorate General of Immigration & Passports to suspend the national identity card and passport of former President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s leading newspaper reported.
After the suspension of his identity card and passport, Musharraf’s bank accounts would be frozen and his international travelling restricted.
A special court while hearing a treason case against the former General on March 8 had directed the interior ministry to suspend Musharraf’s passport and national identity card. However, the implementation of the order was delayed as a certain time limit was granted to the former president to comply with the court’s earlier directives.
The former military ruler is facing the treason trial for subverting the constitution by declaring a state of emergency in November 2007, the news reported. Ending his self-imposed exile, the former military ruler returned to the country in March 2013 and a ban was imposed on his travel abroad by courts the following month.
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