Islamabad, Aug 3 - Pakistan's parliament can try former president Pervez Musharraf, whose declaration of an emergency and sacking of the Supreme Court judges Nov 3, 2007 has been invalidated by the apex court, the country's top law officer said Monday.

'Parliament is supreme in this issue. If a resolution for conducting the trial of the former president is moved in parliament, after its approval, the government would be bound to act on the decision because parliament is the supreme law-making body,' Attorney General Latif Khosa told reporters here.

Holding that Musharraf had acted extra-judicially, illegally and unconstitutionally, the Supreme Court Friday termed as null and void the steps he had taken Nov 3, 2007.

A 14-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, however, stopped short of censuring Musharraf as had been demanded in a petition the court was hearing against the declaration of the emergency.

This was not surprising considering that Friday morning Chaudhry had said while concluding the hearing that the court would not pass a verdict that would trigger chaos in the country.

He made the remark after Khosa said the verdict should be such that it did not harm the 'system'.