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]
