Pakistan sentences Pervez Musharraf to death for high treason

Former ruler, who no longer lives in country, was tried for imposing state of emergency in 2007

A Pakistani court has sentenced the country's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution.

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is not in Pakistan and was not available for comment on the sentence, handed down by an anti-terrorism court hearing the high treason case.