Students attack Islamabad brothel

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 09:01 GMT 10:01 UK

Students attack Islamabad brothel

More than 20 young women from a religious school in the Pakistani capital,
Islamabad, have broken into a brothel and kidnapped the owner.

The students from the Jamia Hafsa madrassa burst into the brothel late
on Tuesday, demanding it be shut down.

The students say they have a right to end immoral activity under Islamic law.

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The girls have also demanded that video owners close their stores.

Our correspondent says it appears the administration is reluctant or helpless
to take action against the students.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6502305.stm

[Eugene]

1. Pakistani Woman Freed in Brothel Case

Source: Associated Press

Pakistani Woman Freed in Brothel Case


Thursday March 29, 2007 2:46 PM

AP Photo ISL106

By MUNIR AHMAD

Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A woman kidnapped by female
seminary students and accused of running a brothel was freed
Thursday after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public
- an episode in vigilante justice that shows the boldness of
Islamic extremists in Pakistan.

Students in black burqas had seized the woman and several of
her relatives from her home late Tuesday during an anti-vice
campaign in the capital, taking the law into their own hands
and embarrassing President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's military-
dominated government.

The students are disciples of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, vice principal
of the Jamia Hafsa seminary and a cleric at the adjoining Lal
Masjid mosque. The mosque has a reputation for preaching
hard-line Islam as well as links to an outlawed militant group
accused in sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims.

With no sign of police intervention to force her release, the
woman, known as Aunty Shamim, was presented to reporters at
the Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad to meet Ghazi's demand
that she stop “spreading obscenity” in return for her freedom.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6517496,00.html

[bemildred]

2. I wonder what its like to have "disciples"? nt