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Newsweek Pakistan
March 1, 2018
The cost, direct and indirect, was high. The understanding that this war will be fought not just by the military but the nation as a whole was slow in coming. Clerics, notably Abdul Aziz of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, were issuing fatwas (religious edicts) condemning the war and the troops fighting it.
Pakistan Today
March 1, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Mohammad Abdul Aziz is considered one of the most dangerous, yet influential, men in Pakistan. And while his movements in the country are restricted by the government, the 57-year-old former head cleric of Islamabad's oldest mosque – Lal Masjid, better known as the Red MosqueÃâà...
Economic Times
January 3, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former dictator General Pervez Musharraf should be brought back to the country for trial in connection with the bloody military crackdown on the Red Mosque in 2007, a son of the slain cleric of the famed Islamabad mosque has said in his fresh application to police, media reportsÃâà...
The Express Tribune
September 28, 2017
ISLAMABAD: Despite public humiliation and periods of house arrest, the former leader of Pakistan's notorious Red Mosque is inspiring a new generation of extremists with his old rhetoric – highlighting Islamabad's ambivalent attempts to bring religious hardliners to heel. Ten years after the military raid onÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
September 15, 2017
Sri Lanka's Red Mosque, or Jami Ul-Alfar Masjid, is one of the architectural wonders of the world. Situated in the bustling Pettah district, one of the oldest parts of the city of Colombo, its tall minarets are seen from almost every street, towering over the hustle and bustle of the busy neighborhood streets.
Deutsche Welle
November 20, 2015
Ghazi leads prayers at the Red Mosque, which was the site of a violent confrontation in July 2007 between Islamists and the security forces, which claimed at least 154 lives. Ghazi was the central figure during the siege of the mosque along with his brother Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed during theÃâà...
The Guardian
December 18, 2014
Anger in Pakistan at the massacre of 141 people in a school in Peshawar hit Islamabad's infamous Red Mosque on Thursday as protesters condemned its hardline clerics over their failure to fully condemn the killings. By the standards of civil protests in Islamabad the turnout of nearly 200 was sizeable.
Yahoo7 News
December 31, 1999
Amazing architecture includes the red-brick Cargills, the country's first department store built in 1844 - now, sadly, home to a smattering of fast food outlets - and the imposing Red Mosque (Jami Ul-Alfar Masjid), its tall minarets in swirling red and white patterns. For pre-dinner cocktails in style, head to Grand Oriental HotelÃâà...
Standard Freeholder
December 31, 1999
Pakistani Muslims offer Eid al-Adha prayers outside the Red Mosque in Islamabad on Sept. 13, 2016. Muslims across the world celebrate the annual festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and in commemoration of Prophet Abraham'sÃâà...
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