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...Melee at the Madrasah Your story on the standoff at a mosque in Islamabad is of a radical Islam that will wreak havoc to uphold its ideologies [July 16]. But it failed to mention that the views held by those responsible for the siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque are not truly representative of Islam. There is no religion in the world that justifies the use of violence or promotes taking the law into one's own hands. The residents of the Lal Masjid compound have done both by forcefully occupying land and abducting people. If any of the victims...
...Extremism and terrorism will be defeated in every corner of the country.' PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, defending the eight-day government raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque. Militants responded with a rash of bombings and suicide attacks...
...tribal areas, while the country's middle class has taken to the streets to protest Musharraf's decision to suspend Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. (A suicide attack during a pro-Chaudhry rally on July 17 killed more than a dozen.) On July 10 Musharraf ordered the army into Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, to arrest Islamic extremists who had holed up there for months. Islamic radicals have vowed revenge for the siege, which killed scores of militants. A guide to Pakistan's ongoing crisis...
...morning of his last day alive, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, head cleric of Islamabad's besieged Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), swore his readiness to die. "My martyrdom is certain," he told the local press. Within hours, Ghazi's bullet-riddled body was carted out of the basement of the sprawling mosque and madrasah, or seminary, complex where he and scores of heavily armed militants had battled Pakistani security forces for eight days. Ghazi is dead, but he may well come to haunt the President, General Pervez Musharraf, and the country...
...consequences were immediate and deadly when last-minute negotiations at Islamabad's besieged Red Mosque failed Monday night. A group of religious and political leaders, including former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, had offered militant mosque leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi one last chance to surrender. "I am returning very disappointed," said Hussain. "We offered him a lot, but he wasn't ready to agree to our terms." A day later, Ghazi was killed at the Red Mosque, not far from the very place where his father, the mosque's founder, was slain by unknown assailants in 1998. Minutes after...