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Lal Masjid wilts under pressure
July 05, 2007
The blasts were followed by repeated announcements through mobile loudspeakers by the troops asking militants to surrender.
"We have surrounded you. Surrender," the announcements said. But no one came out of the mosque as the stand-off entered the third day.
Pakistan Defence spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad denied launching of any operation by troops to storm the sprawling mosque and the girls' madrasa attached to it.
Troops surrounding the mosque and the girls' madrassa also fired several rounds of teargas shells after which the guns fell silent from both sides.
Image: Female Pakistani police officers walk past a pair of radical Islamic students as they leave the mosque after surrendering to authorities.
Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
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