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News Article from 16th April 2007, ToI.
Kashif
Pak women commandos could storm madrassa
Islamabad: The Pakistan government reportedly intends to deploy women commandos to launch a crackdown on a seminary housing militant girl students who have stepped up their campaign to impose Sharia law in the country backed by radical clerics.
âPakistan government while holding negotiations with the radical clerics of the Lal Masjid that fixed a one month deadline for the government to impose Sharia law in the capital, prepared a contingency plan to launch a commando operation at the Jamia Hafsa madrassa located adjacent to the mosque,â the Daily Times quoted US intelligence reports as saying.
The madrassa, according to Lal Masjid clerics housed about 3,000 girl students, majority of them hailing from poor families of North West Frontier Province or destitute children.
Local media reports also said the government has deployed several hundred male commandos at the nearby vacant buildings. The government, however, ruled out a crackdown in the immediate future fearing the political fall out of massive casualties to burqa-clad girls, who too threatened to resist with weapons and suicide attacks.
The government, which negotiated with the clerics through the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q , had failed to persuade the Islamists to give up their Taliban-style campaign in the capital. PTI
Kashif
Pak women commandos could storm madrassa
Islamabad: The Pakistan government reportedly intends to deploy women commandos to launch a crackdown on a seminary housing militant girl students who have stepped up their campaign to impose Sharia law in the country backed by radical clerics.
âPakistan government while holding negotiations with the radical clerics of the Lal Masjid that fixed a one month deadline for the government to impose Sharia law in the capital, prepared a contingency plan to launch a commando operation at the Jamia Hafsa madrassa located adjacent to the mosque,â the Daily Times quoted US intelligence reports as saying.
The madrassa, according to Lal Masjid clerics housed about 3,000 girl students, majority of them hailing from poor families of North West Frontier Province or destitute children.
Local media reports also said the government has deployed several hundred male commandos at the nearby vacant buildings. The government, however, ruled out a crackdown in the immediate future fearing the political fall out of massive casualties to burqa-clad girls, who too threatened to resist with weapons and suicide attacks.
The government, which negotiated with the clerics through the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q , had failed to persuade the Islamists to give up their Taliban-style campaign in the capital. PTI
