...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
administration has ’reclaimed’ land that once housed Jamia Hafsa
... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid....
and a children’s library.
The mosque administration has installed a signboard on the land next to the mosque, calling it their property, while the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has remained silent.
The Jamia Hafsa building and the library were demolished by the government following the military operation in 2007.
After the operation, the government and the mosque administration, led by Maulana Abdul Aziz
...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is...
, reached an agreement under which the CDA would provide an alternative site for the reconstruction of Jamia Hafsa.
The CDA has allotted 20 kanals of land for this in H-11, and construction is ongoing.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the Lal Masjid administration recently installed a board on the site, claiming that the land was the mosque’s property.
Hafiz Ihtesham Ahmed, a spokesperson for the mosque’s Shuhada Foundation, claimed: "As per our agreement with the government we can include this plot [where Jamia Hafsa once stood] in the Lal Masjid yard."
While discussing the installation of the board, he added: "As per the agreement, ultimately this four kanal plot was to be made part of the mosque, but so far the CDA has not merged it with the mosque."
When asked if the CDA, which is the custodian of land in the capital, was party to the aforementioned agreement, Mr Ahmed said it was not.
CDA spokesperson Malik Saleem, when asked about the agreement Mr Ahmed had referred to, said he had no knowledge of an agreement regarding the merging of the plot with the mosque.
"The land adjacent to Lal Masjid is the CDA’s property, and no one would be allowed to encroach upon it," he said, adding that the authority also stopped efforts to construct on the land last year.
When asked why action had not been taken to remove the signboard if the land is the CDA’s property, Mr Saleem said they would look into it.
After the 2007 operation, the CDA had changed the master plan for the G-6 civic centre, erasing several plots adjacent to Lal Masjid and leaving the entire area an open space.