Arrest warrant for Pakistan cleric 'Mullah Burqa' who justified Peshawar school attack

December 27, 2014 12:43

In wake of growing calls for arrest of the controversial Pakistani cleric, a Pakistani court has issued an arrest warrant for Red Mosque Imam Abdul Aziz, who allegedly justified the heinous Peshawar school attack by Taliban.

The cleric, who is also known as 'Mullah Burqa', is accused of threatening the protesters outside the Red Mosque after he refused to condemn the deadly Taliban massacre in Peshawar school that killed over 140 children.

According to a local Pak media report, the cleric in one of his recent sermons on December 19, referred to the Taliban as our brothers and said that the attack on school was a 'justified' act of retaliation by the Taliban.

Enraged by the cleric's blatant remark, Pakistani civil society groups have called for his execution as well.

The cleric earned himself the moniker -- 'Mullah Burqa' -- after he fled Red Mosque military raid in 2007 in a burqa. However, later he was caught and paraded through the capital on television live.

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