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| Hafsa women kidnapped, trained as bombers: MQM |
| 2007-04-23 |
| Many women at Jamia Hafsa are from poor families from Kashmir who have been either kidnapped or bought, according to a report released by a Mutahida Qaumi Movement investigation committee on Sunday. “These women are indoctrinated and trained for suicide attacks,” says the report, which details the history of the mosque and its Jamia Hafsa madrassa for girls and Jamia Fareedia madrassa for boys. The report claims the Lal Masjid administration plans to use women as “human shields”, in case of police action, and use their deaths as a propaganda tool to justify suicide attacks. According to the report, Lal Masjid was initially built legally as a non-denominational mosque, but a few years ago, the mosque was “illegally occupied by armed force by the sons of the late Maulana Abdullah, i.e., Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Ghazi Abdul Rashid”. The brothers were high-grade government employees but were sacked for possessing illegal arms, says the report. Similarly, Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia were built legally on one kanal each, but the two madrassas had expanded their settlements through encroachments to now cover 13 kanals and 22 kanals respectively. The report claims that the mosque administration had instructed Jamia Fareedia students to attack video, television and camera shops in Islamabad. The students attack vehicles driven by women and beat them up, stop vehicles and take the cassette and CD players out, and beat up men and women wearing Western dress, says the report. Jamia Hafsa, says the report, “is like a colony where residential houses also exist beside the madrassas. Ten to 15 women live in a single room with inadequate toilet facilities.” Burqa-clad women told the MQM committee that the administration of Jamia Hafsa is totally run by the Maulana Abdul Aziz’s wife. The report says many students living in the Lal Masjid compound are engaged in Afghan jihad. They were trained for suicide attacks and encouraged to seek martyrdom. There were some 4,000 to 5,000 of these men. The madrassas also stockpile “brand new” Kalashnikovs, AK-47s and rocket launchers, says the report. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Mutahida Qaumi Movement, MQM |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-04-23 09:37 |