[DAWN] The interior ministry came under immense pressure to take action against 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...
holy man Abdul Aziz after four key legal documents, asserting that the holy man was an absconder, were presented before the upper house by Senator Farhatullah Babar.
Babar, who also sought the chair's permission to move a privilege motion against Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan