Pakistan rearrests ex-president Musharraf over Red Mosque deaths

Reuters ^ | Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:09pm EDT | Amjad Ali and Syed Raza Hassan

[Pan_Yan]

(Reuters) - Pakistan rearrested former president Pervez Musharraf on Thursday after accusations that he was personally responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people when he ordered commandos to storm the Red Mosque in 2007.

The operation at the radical mosque in the capital of Islamabad followed a week-long standoff between the mosque's supporters and security forces.

The rearrest came after Musharraf had been granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Wednesday he was cleared to leave the country.

[Pan_Yan]

Arrest for Musharraf means the government asks him nicely to stay in his compound. If they tried to actually put him in jail there would be a military coup. I think they gave him a 24 hour window to leave the country and he refused.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is a political winds item.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pan_Yan.