ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday accepted an application for the early hearing of a petition seeking registration of a murder case against former dictator President Pervez Musharraf for ordering 'Operation Silence' against Lal Masjid.
IHC judge Justice Noor-ul-Haq N Qureshi heard the application and directed to fix a date for hearing before the summer vacations.
Haroon Rashid, the son of late Ghazi Abdul Rashid, had submitted the application for early hearing of a petition in which he had moved the court through his counsel M Tariq Asad and made Station House Officer (SHO) Police Station Aabpara and General (R) Pervez Musharraf as respondents.
He stated that there are news items being published in print media that conspiracies are being hatched to send Musharraf out of the country.
He expressed his apprehensions that Musharraf could flee from the country. Therefore, he requested the court to fix an early date of his petition filed seeding registration of murder case against Musharraf. In the petition, he had contended that his father Ghazi Abdul Rashid and grandmother Sahiba were killed in the military operation ordered by then president Musharraf.
Petitioner continued that he submitted several applications before the SHO Aabpara to register FIR but the same were refused.
"Now from the report of Commission made by the orders of Supreme Court, it is disclosed that the so-called military operation was carried out by the orders of General (R) Musharraf," he added.
He continued that in 'Silence Operation', a large number of innocent persons including boys and girls were killed against the law of the land and a large number of students became missing during the operation.
Haroon stated that now the evidences produced before the Fact Finding Commission, about 400 witnesses appeared and recorded their statements, it was alleged that then president Musharraf had ordered military operation while Musharraf has at various occasions confessed that 94 persons were killed in Lal Masjid and jamia Hafsa.
"In view of the evidences mentioned above the legal heirs of the innocent victims had been filling applications time to time and requesting to register criminal cases against the responsible persons but their requests were not acceded to," he maintained.
The petitioner informed that he filed a petition under Section 22-A of Cr PC before the learned Justice of Peace who dismissed the petition without assigning any reason.
Therefore, he prayed in his petition that the court may direct SHO Aabpara to register criminal case of murder against Prevez Musharraf in accordance with law.