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Lal Masjid's Shuhada Foundation barred from organising political, religious activities
 [DAWN] The federal capital's administration on Friday imposed a ban on all political and religious activities by Lal Masjid...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... 's Shuhada Foundation, declaring it an "unregistered entity". Deputy Commissioner (DC) Islamabad had received an application for a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Shuhada Foundation for a ceremony to be held in remembrance of the 'deaders' of the military crackdown on Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa ... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid.... on July 7. Responding to the request, the DC Islamabad's office released a notification rejecting not only the said application, but also disallowing the foundation from conducting any political or religious activities owing to it not being registered with any state entity. The notification, signed by an additional district magistrate, has warned the foundation against violating the order, which could lead to "strict legal action". Lal Masjid is registered with Auqaf and is therefore allowed only worship-related activities, the notification stated. Rejecting the notification, the Shuhada Foundation said that it will go on with the event as planned, insisting that the foundation was a registered entity. It also accused the government of "deceiving the public" on the matter. It, however, did not comment on which entity the foundation was registered with. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-24 |
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