Pakistan to suspend Musharraf's national identity card, passport

Islamabad : Pakistan's Interior Ministry has ordered a suspension of former Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf's computerized national identity card (CNIC) and passport, said a media report.

In compliance with the order of a special court, the ministry on Thursday asked the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports to carry out the suspensions, the Dawn report said.

Post suspension of ID and passport, the authorities will seal his bank accounts too. A special court in Pakistan had ordered the ministry on March 8 to suspend his passport and CNIC.

Pervez Musharraf is facing a treason trial for subverting the Constitution by declaring a state of emergency in November 2007, Dawn 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. After three years, in March 2016, he was able to leave for Dubai seeking medical treatment and has since not returned.