ISLAMABAD: Although the prosecution has repeatedly said it has been unable to obtain the details of meetings former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf held with certain military and political leaders prior to the imposition of emergency on Nov 3, 2007, his legal team has prepared a list of at least eight such meetings.

Sources in the former general’s defence team told Dawn that the meetings with military officials were held at the General Headquarters and his camp office near Army House. However, Musharraf’s meetings with the then prime minister, members of his cabinet and political leaders were held at Prime Minister House.

Advocate Faisal Hussain, Musharraf’s counsel, said their team had a list of those who met Musharraf during the last week of October, up to Nov 3. “The defence team will submit the list in court at an appropriate time and after consultations,” he said.

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According to the information the defence team shared with Dawn, these included meetings with the chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), the two other services chiefs, then Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, different corps commanders, governors, heads of intelligence agencies, then Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, key members of his cabinet and certain prominent politicians.

As per the details, on Oct 27, 2007 Gen Musharraf met Commander 1 Corps Lt Gen Sajjad Akram, Commander 10 Corps Lt Gen Mohsin Kamal, Commander 30 Corps Lt Gen Waseem Ashraf, Commander 4 Corps Lt Gen Shafaatullah Shah and Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Masud Alam.

On Oct 28, the former military ruler met Commander 2 Corps Lt Gen Sikandar Afzal, Commander 5 Corps Lt Gen Ahsan Azhar Hayat, Commander 31 Corps Lt Gen Imtiaz Hussain and Commander Southern Command Quetta Lt Gen Khalid Shamim Wynne.

The following day, Musharraf held four meetings: one with then CJCSC Gen Tariq Majeed, then Air Chief Marshal Tanveer Mehmood Ahmed and then Naval Chief Admiral Afzal Tahir; a second meeting with principal staff officers of the armed forces; a third with provincial governors including retired Lt Gen Khalid Maqbool of Punjab, Ishratul Ibad of Sindh, retired Lt Gen Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP), Awais Ghani of Balochistan and the corps commanders of the provincial headquarters; while the fourth meeting was with the heads of all intelligence agencies.

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On Oct 31, Gen Musharraf met then Prime Minister Aziz, key cabinet members and certain political leaders from the ruling coalition.

A day before the imposition of emergency, Musharraf met the prime minister, the vice chief of army staff, National Security Council Adviser Tariq Aziz and the heads of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

Although a military spokesperson did not comment on the issue, a statement by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad, which was also part of the inquiry report the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted in the special court, confirmed that provincial governors did meet Gen Musharraf before the emergency proclamation on Nov 3.

In the report, Dr Ibad is asked: “Did Gen Pervez Musharraf consult you on this issue? When? In what manner?”

The report records Dr Ibad’s answer thus: “(He) recollected that perhaps in the last week of October 2007, he, along with the governors of the other three provinces, was summoned to attend a meeting chaired by then President Gen Pervez Musharraf. In that meeting the then president informed the governors that in view of the difficult situation faced by the country, the government was contemplating taking some measures, permissible under the Constitution.”

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Following the restoration of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on July 20, 2007 Gen Musharraf met the CJCSC on July 23; Commander 1 Corps Lt Gen Sajjad Akram, Commander 10 Corps Lt Gen Mohsin Kamal and Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Masud Alam on July 25; Commander 2 Corps Lt Gen Sikandar Afzal, Commander 4 Corps Lt Gen Shafaatullah Shah and Commander 30 Corps Lt Gen Waseem Ashraf on July 26; and Commander 5 Corps Lt Gen Ahsan Azhar Hayat, Commander 12 Corps Lt Gen Khalid Shamim Wynne and Commander 31 Corps Lt Gen Imtiaz Hussain on Aug 3. He also presided over the Corps Commanders Conference on Aug 3.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd, 2014