The following report is the first from MEMRI's Urdu Media Project. The focus of this project is on translations from open-source Urdu language newspapers and websites. The primary sources will be material from Pakistan and its surrounding countries as well as media outlets and websites in Urdu in the U.K.
Introduction
On July 3, 2007, after months of heightening tensions, gun battles erupted at the Lal Masjid in Islamabad between religious seminary students and Pakistani security forces. Also involved in the fighting have been young women from the adjacent Jamia Hafsa Madarsa, which is run by the same two clerics who head the Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz and Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi. In a July 8, 2007 interview in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Abdul Aziz said that the women of Jamia Hafsa have been given training, at a secret location, in the use of automatic rifles and chemical weapons.
Earlier, in January 2007, the women of Jamia Hafsa occupied a public building in protest against the destruction of several mosques illegally built on state property.
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"Our Bodies Will Fall, But Mosques Will Stand; Rivers of Our Blood Will Flow,
But We Will Not Let the Greatness of Islam be Harmed"
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"My Great Daughters, Daughters Bathed in the Longing for Martyrdom… Rise, Wage Jihad - Allah Will Help You"
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"Oh Allah… In Return for Our Taking this Step, Pave the Way for an Islamic
System"
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"[Even] If We Have to Give This Life for You in Your Path, We Will Not Back
Down"
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Pertinent Links:
1) Who Are the Women in the Islamabad Standoff? A Look Inside the Jamia Hafsa Madarsa
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