ISLAMABAD – Breakthrough Reported between Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz andgovernment officials.
Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz agreed on Sunday to end his occupation of themosque after three-day long negotiations with the Islamabad administration,who said that 20 kanals of land will be allotted to establish Jamia Hafsa.
The maulana is expected to leave by Tuesday. The female students, who hadentered the Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad’s Sector H-11 on Thursday, havestarted to leave. The police force surrounding the seminary in H-11 hasbeen withdrawn.
During the negotiations, the maulana claimed that his “movement” againstformer president Pervez Musharraf had started because mosques in thecapital were being demolished and insisted that such incidents had resumed.
The authorities assured him that his complaints will be taken to competentauthorities and that his demand for a settlement in light of the SupremeCourt’s decision will be considered.
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Earlier, an official of the capital administration had said that thedemands of Maulana Aziz cannot be implemented as he wants to become thekhateeb of the mosque again.
He also wants Rs250 million along with a large piece of land to establishJamia Hafsa and the possession of the adjacent old children’s library plot,he added.
