Arrest warrant issued against former Pakistan dictator Musharraf in Lal Masjid case

Islamabad: A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued on Thursday against former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf by a court here for repeatedly failing to appear in the 2007 murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

An capital of Pakistan district and sessions court choose rejected Musharraf's pleas for exemption from look and issued the non-bailable bench warrant against the previous president. The court adjourned the hearing until Gregorian calendar month twenty seven.

71-year-old Musharraf lives along with his girl in metropolis wherever he underwent a medical check-up on weekday.

The case was registered against Musharraf for the murder of the divine and his mother throughout the Red musjid operation of 2007. Ghazi was killed once army commandos stormed the musjid within the capital on Musharraf's orders. Musharraf was appointive  within the case however he ne'er appeared in court, citing health and security reasons.

.The ex-army chief is facing a slew of proceedings when coming back from 5 years of self-exile in urban center to contest the final elections in 2013 that he lost.

Musharraf is already facing murder charges within the case of former premier Benazir Bhutto WHO was dead in 2007. he's on bail within the case.

.He has additionally been indicted in a very treason case in March last year for suspending, subverting associate degreed abrogating the Constitution and imposing an emergency in Pakistan in Gregorian calendar month 2007, the primary army chief to face such a prosecution. He has additionally been charged within the judges' detention case.

Musharraf came to power in a very bloodless coup in 1999, deposing then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Facing legal instrument following elections in 2008, Musharraf resigned as president and went into voluntary exile in metropolis.