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| Musharraf says he felt "a little |
| Musharraf says he felt "a little insulted, humiliated" while standing in court
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-March-2013
12:26:57 PM |
| Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he felt "a little insulted and humiliated" standing before a judge in a Karachi court, where he appeared to seek extension of his pre-arrest bail in a series of cases against him.
Musharraf, 69, who ruled Pakistan for about a decade following a military coup in which he overthrew Nawaz Sharif, appeared in a court in Karachi yesterday for the first time in his life.
"This is the first time that I ever entered a courtroom in my life. If I was to be very frank with you on my feelings, if you want to know my feelings, the first feeling when I stand up for the judge when he entered which was the norm -- the norm which I had to follow, I did feel somehow a little insulted, a little humiliated," Musharraf told CNN.
"But then I started thinking to myself that I have been saying that everyone is equal in the eyes of law. So I thought to myself, well, I have been saying this. The law applies to me also. So may be, would be upset for other -- that you yourself got involved," said the former military rule
When asked if he trusted the judicial system, Musharraf said one has to face all the consequences.
"I know...my conviction is that there is nothing against me. And there were arrest warrants that were issued for my nonappearance in the court," he said.
"Now when I appeared in the court, there shouldn't be a reason for my arrest. And we should proceed with the cases. As far as the cases are concerned, they are politicised and there's nothing against me. From any point of view, there is nothing against me. So therefore, with that conviction, I'll face the courts," he said.
Musharraf said at no point he was in danger when a shoe was thrown at him in the Karachi court room. "I didn't even see it. There was nothing that hit me. Later on, I was told that somebody hurled something. But nothing of that sort was visible," he said.
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