Former president General (retired)
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao were allegedly involved in the 2007 bloody military operation in which 103 people were killed.
Advocate Tariq Asad, who was assigned by the apex court on April 18 to go through the contents of the one-man commission of inquiry set up to ascertain the causes of the Lal Masjid military operation, submitted his comments to the apex court on Friday.
Justice Shahzada Sheikh of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC), heading the Lal Masjid commission, in his findings on April 20 gave a clean chit to the military leadership, but held Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz and his political allies responsible for the operation.
The Lal Masjid conflict started when the Jamia Hafsa girls occupied the adjacent Children's Library on January 22, 2007 in retaliation to the razing of seven 'unauthorised' mosques by the city administration.The confrontation built up in the succeeding month to erupt into armed festivities when a Ranger was killed on July 3, 2007 by gunfire from the mosque. Army was called in the same night and special forces stormed the mosque after suspension of water and electricity supply to the mosque failed to subdue the alleged snuffies holed up inside.
In his comments, Tariq Asad asked the apex court to also order registration of cases against persons, including the then chairman Capital Development Authoruity (CDA), for allegedly defiling the Holy Koran and books of Shariah.