A court ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for the 2007 murder of a hard-line Islamic cleric during an army raid on Lad Masjid, lawyers said Thursday. Judge Wajid Ali Khan issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Musharraf for ordering the military to storm Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, the cleric's lawyer Tariq Asad said.
Cleric Abdul Rasheed and more than 100 students, mostly females, were killed in the operation.
The mosque in the heart of the capital drew global condemnation when its stick-wielding, veiled female students started patrolling the streets to implement Taliban-styled sharia rule.
The warrants are the latest in a series of legal challenges facing Musharraf since his return from exile in 2013 to participate in elections.
It was not immediately clear whether he would be arrested at his home in Karachi where he is undergoing treatment for a heart condition he developed more than a year ago.
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