Pakistan razes madrasa in militant mosque complex

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Pakistan razes madrasa in miitant mosque complex
25 Jul 2007 09:25:12 GMT
Source: Reuters

ISLAMABAD, July 25 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities are
demolishing a battle-scarred Islamic madrasa in Islamabad's
Red Mosque complex, where scores of people were killed in
an army assault this month, officials said on Wednesday.

Pakistan army commandoes stormed the Lal Masjid or Red
Mosque and adjoining Jamia Hafsa seminary for women on
July 10, after followers of radical clerics who were running
a Taliban-style movement from the complex refused to
surrender.

Authorities say the government decided to raze the four-
storeyed madrasa as its structure had been badly weakened
by the fierce battles in the compound between security
forces and the militants.

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However, he said the government had no plans to demolish
the mosque, and it was being renovated to be reopened for
prayers on Friday.

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