Chief judge in Musharraf case says not quitting trial

March 27, 2014 21:22

The chief judge in Pervez Musharraf's treason trial today dramatically stormed out of the courtroom in "disgust" after repeatedly being accused of bias against the former Pakistani military dictator but later clarified that he was not recusing himself from the case.

It was widely reported that Justice Faisal Arab, the chief of the three-member bench conducting the treason trial against 70-year-old Musharraf, had recused himself from the hearing following an exchange of arguments with the former president's counsel Anwar Mansoor.

However, the judge later clarified that he had only walked out of today's proceedings and was not dissociating himself from the case completely.

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