Case filed against Pervez Musharraf in Lal Masjid case
Islamabad: A case was on Monday filed against Pervez Musharraf for the murder of cleric Abdul Rasheed and his mother during the infamous Lal Masjid operation.
“Musharraf is not going to go away. We were expecting such a case. He will continue to fight politically motivated case and prove his innocence,” she said.
The Lal Masjid operation, undertaken by the then Musharraf government in 2007, was meant as a crackdown on the controversial mosque in Islamabad, which ended in a bloody eight-day siege, killing at least 58 Pakistani troops and seminary students.
On Friday, the Court had summoned the SHO over non-compliance with the court’s orders to look into whether a case can be registered. On July 12 this year, the same bench had ordered the police to book the former president, and if the Lal Masjid operation was a cognisable offence, a case be registered against Musharraf for the death of cleric and others.
However, the police had refused to register an FIR, saying it would do so after consulting their legal branch. Musharraf, who returned from his self-imposed exile before the May 11 elections, is currently entangled in a legal web.
