850 students still in besieged mosque
The captured head of a Taliban-style student movement said today there were still around 850 students in Islamabad’s besieged Red Mosque, around 14 of them armed with Kalashnikov sub-machineguns. Abdul Aziz made the comments on state-run television the day after he was arrested trying to escape from the radical Red Mosque clad in a woman’s all-enveloping burqa. Full Story