国际英语新闻:Pakistani court rejects plea for banning Mushararf from leaving country

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani court on Friday rejected a petition, seeking a ban on former President Pervez Musharraf from leaving the country.

The Islamabad High Court order has kept hopes alive for the former powerful military leader, who faxes several criminal cases, to leave the country reportedly under a deal with the government.

Haroon Rasheed, son of a slain cleric, who was killed in military raid on Islamabad's Red Mosque in 2007, had approached the court for barring Musharraf from leaving the country.

He had requested the court to include name of Musharraf' in the Exit Control List as it has been learnt that he intends to leave for Dubai before the Muslim festival of "Eid.-ul-Adha" to be celebrated in Pakistan on Oct. 16.

The court rejected the application, however, the judges granted 14 days judicial remand of the former president in the murder case of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy prayer leader of the Red Mosque. The military operations had claimed nearly 100 lives including 90 religious students.

The military had launched military raid on the mosque after the students, some of them armed, refused to surrender. Ten security personnel had also killed been in exchange of firing.

Musharraf had defended the operation and stated that the militants had taken control of the mosque, adjoining girls religious and a government's children library.

On police request, Pervez Musharraf was exempted from appearance in the court due to security reasons.

Police on Wednesday formally arrested Musharraf in the Ghazi's murder case on the instructions of the Islamabad High Court.

A police officer confirmed the arrest and said that a team of the investigators also questioned Musharraf late Thursday.

The arrest was made just a day after the Supreme Court granted bail to Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of former tribal elder Nawab Akbar Bugti in a military operation in 2006.

Musharraf has already got bails in the case of the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and placed top judges under house arrest illegally during his rule.