 Lal Masjid’s chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz on Friday warned intelligence agencies against “kidnapping” his madrassa students. “If intelligence agencies continue to kidnap our students, we will start to kidnap their personnel. The kidnapped personnel will be kept on Lal Masjid premises,” Aziz told the Friday prayers congregation at Lal Masjid. He would not tell the devotees how many of his madrassa students had already been nabbed.
| Aziz said the agencies picked up people, including women, and tortured them before handing them over to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
Aziz said the agencies picked up people, including women, and tortured them before handing them over to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The cleric claimed the closure of many brothels in Islamabad due to the mass movement of the moral-brigade of Jamia Hafsa, without elaborating on it. He defended the encroachment on government land by Jamia Hafsa, saying, “when brothels are declared legal in the city, protesting over the encroachment of a few inches by a madrassa is unwarranted.” He said holding talks with the government did not mean that Lal Masjid had abandoned its Sharia demand. “We don’t demand theocracy, but an Islamic government,” he said. |