Arrested Pakistani students to reunite with family

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-09 09:40

Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (C) meets with religious students who were arrested from Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and later released to join their families, in Islamabad July 8, 2007. A rebel cleric said he and his fighters hoped their deaths would spark an Islamic revolution in Pakistan, as commandos blew holes in the walls of their besieged mosque compound to help women and children inside escape. Troops have surrounded the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad since Tuesday when clashes between armed student radicals and government forces erupted after months of tension. [Reuters]


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