Under Article 248 of the Constitution no criminal proceedings whatsoever would be instituted or continued against the president in any court during his term of office. It is due to the same article of the constitution that protected Musharraf from being prosecuted.
Rule of law simply means that provisions of the law reign supreme and no one is above the law or allowed to challenge its writ. In other words, if an individual is caught with his hand in the forbidden cookie jar, the matter cannot be swept under the carpet merely because he has landed in the upper echelons of state hierarchy.
If justice prevails and law stands above personalities or offices, then it has to be more, far more than a sacked president this time.
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