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Another Lal Masjid in Pak

Islamabad, July 30
Hundreds of militants in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province have forcibly occupied a local mosque and named it after Islamabad's Lal Masjid while vowing to continue the mission of slain radical cleric Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi. The militants have also decided to establish a seminary similar to Jamia Hafsa, the girls’ madrasa attached to Lal Masjid which was razed to the ground by the government after its capture early this month.

The 150 armed masked men took up positions in and around the masjid at Ghaziabad Lakaro on Saturday night. The gunmen announced they were renaming the mosque as "Lal Masjid" and the madrasa would be called "Jamia Hafsa Umme Hassan", Dawn quoted witnesses as saying. — PTI