QUETTA/ISLAMABAD - As trouble for ex-COAS and President Gen Pervez Musharraf refuses to die down, an Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta has ordered his presence in the court during the hearing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti murder case. 
Former interior minister Aftab Khan Sherpao appeared before the ATC on Monday when the Crime Branch filed the challan of case. Expressing reservation, Sohail Rajput, counsel for Nawabzada Jamail Akbar Bugti, said “it is an important case and entire world is focusing on it but the Crime Branch has filed the challan even before doing any investigation”.
ATC judge Muhammad Ismail Baloch ordered the Crime Branch to produce Gen (r) Musharraf before the court.
The Crime Branch also submitted investigation report about former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and former Dera Bugti deputy commissioner Samad Lasi.
The court rejected the report and ordered the authorities to file it again on the next hearing. The court ordered the authorities to bring Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz, Owias Ghani and Abdul Samad Lasi to the court on the next hearing before adjourning the case until July 30.
Separately, a division bench of the Balochistan High Court comprising Justice Naeem Akthar Afghan and Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mengal adjourned the hearing of Musharraf’s bail petition in Bugti murder case due to the absence of advocate general.
The court ordered the advocate general to appear on the next hearing on July 22.
In Islamabad, another judge of the Supreme Court, following Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on Monday refused to hear an application against post-arrest bail granted to Gen (r) Musharraf by the Islamabad High Court in judges’ detention case.
Justice Nasirul Mulk heading a three-judge bench excused himself from taking up the application, filed by Aslam Ghuman advocate, seeking the cancellation of bail granted to Musharraf by the IHC in the case of detaining over 60 judges of superior courts.
 “I am not going to hear this case. I cannot give you fix date for next hearing. Office of the SC will put up your case before an appropriate bench,” remarked Justice Mulk after he was asked by the applicant to give a confirm date for next hearing.
Musharraf had separately approached the court against the verdict of an IHC judge who rejected his pre-arrest bail plea and added terror charges in the case. Under rule IV of the Code of Conduct for Judges, no judicial officer can hear the case related to him or his family. Justice Nasirul Mulk, reportedly, was also detained after the imposition of emergency on November 3, 2007. Talking to the media persons, Ghuman, the petitioner, said that the registrar office of the SC would fix the case for regular hearing. Citing Gen (r) Musharraf as respondent, Ghuman has challenged the June 11, 2013 judgment of the IHC, allowing bail to Musharraf and deleting terrorism charges in the case.
The IHC on Monday released its short judgement on a petition seeking registration of murder case against Musharraf for the killing of Lal Masjid cleric Ghazi Abdur Rasheed and his mother Sahiba Khatoon.
Tariq Asad advocate filed a petition on the behalf of his client Haroon Rasheed, song of Ghazi Rasheed, and made Aabpara SHO and Musharraf respondents.
He maintained that his father Ghazi Abdul Rashid and grandmother Sahiba had been killed in the military operation on the orders of former president.
After hearing the petition, Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi ordered the Islamabad police to record the statement of petitioner and register FIR, if there is a cognisable offence.
On Monday, in its two pages short judgement, the court observes that the petitioner cannot be deprived of his basic right and the SHO concerned should hear the petitioner and if the charges are cognisable offence then he may act in accordance with the law.