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Pakistani forces enter mosque compound-military
10 Jul 2007 00:04:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, July 10 (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces entered the compound of a mosque in Islamabad on Tuesday, after launching an operation to clear it of militants, the military said.

"They have entered the madrasa" said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad, referring to a religious school in the mosque compound. "The militants are firing."
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Qari Hanif Jallandari, secretary general of Pakistan's alliance of madrasas or Islamic religious schools speaks in Multan July 13, 2007. Several thousand Pakistani Islamists rallied on Friday to denounce the government for ordering an army crackdown on a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad.



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