| Lal Masjid has guns on the premises and will defend itself if the government attempts a crackdown, the mosque’s deputy administrator said on Wednesday. “If it comes to a do-or-die situation we will use our right to self defence,” Abdul Rashid Ghazi told AFP by telephone. “Whatever arms we have are with licences obtained in the past through normal official procedures,” he said. He refused to respond to comments by intelligence sources that students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia had stored petrol to make crude firebombs. |