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16:27, July 05, 2007 |
Head of the hard-line Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, who was arrested on Wednesday night, has asked the students inside the mosque and seminary complex to either surrender or escape under the given situation.
The appeal came as the security forces Thursday mounted pressure on the students, who are still showing resistance from inside the mosque and seminary Jamia Hafsa.
Maulana Abdul Aziz asked his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the deputy of the mosque and seminary to come out of the besieged complex, when he was produced on the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) in an interview.
Abdul Aziz was arrested Wednesday by the security personnel deployed outside the mosque while attempting to escape in the guise of a female student wearing Burqa veil.
He admitted that he wanted to escape the mosque to avoid his arrest.
Almost 250 students along with his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi are still inside the seminary, he said.
The mosque head admitted that there were 13 or 14 automatic Klashnikov rifles and masks in the seminary, which he said were provided to them by some Pakistani "friends." But he did not disclose the identity of the "friends."
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