Lal Masjid: IHC orders immediate registration of case against Musharraf
The court entertained a contempt plea over not filing case against Musharraf.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Islamabad High Court ordered to immediately register a case against former dictator Pervez Musharraf on the basis of a petition filed in court regarding the Lal Masjid Operation conducted in 2007.
The court entertained a contempt plea over not filing case against Musharraf. During the proceeding, the petitioner said that the police refused to register the case despite court orders.
Justice Noorul Haq Qureshi remarked that the SHO of Aab Para police station has committed contempt by not registering case against Musharraf. The court summoned the FIR register and concerned official for registration of case.
Background
On July 3, 2007, Musharraf had ordered a military operation against the mosque for challenging the writ of the state.
The military besieged the mosque for 12 days before assaulting the compound, an attack in which hundreds of students were killed.
The former chief cleric of Lal Masjid Aziz was accused of using the mosque loudspeaker to instigate madrassa students to attack the Rangers who were deployed outside the mosque in order to prevent Aziz and his associates at Lal Masjid from continuing their campaign of public intimidation that they had been carrying out since January of that year.
The charges against Aziz also include kidnapping and abduction of Chinese massage therapists as well as hijacking a children’s library in June 2007 as part of his institution’s protest against the demolition of seven mosques in the federal capital.
Last year, an anti-terrorism court acquitted Aziz, and 16 other persons in a case on the killing of a Rangers official.
