Islamabad:
Pakistani police say they have opened a murder investigation into former president Pervez Musharraf's role in the death of a cleric killed during a raid of Red Mosque in Islamabad in 2007. Around a hundred people were also killed in that raid.
General Musharraf had ordered the raid in response to increasing complaints against the mosque. Students there had begun raiding massage parlors, shops selling movies and other places they deemed as centers of vulgarity.
The mosque raid set off widespread counterattacks by militants that added to General Musharraf's unpopularity.
After four years in self-exile General Musharraf returned to Pakistan in March but has faced a string of legal problems since then.
General Musharraf had ordered the raid in response to increasing complaints against the mosque. Students there had begun raiding massage parlors, shops selling movies and other places they deemed as centers of vulgarity.
The mosque raid set off widespread counterattacks by militants that added to General Musharraf's unpopularity.
After four years in self-exile General Musharraf returned to Pakistan in March but has faced a string of legal problems since then.
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