01-22-2007, 05:01 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Pak demolishes two mosques </b>
PTI | Islamabad
Security cited as reason; religious leaders flay 'US appeasement'
<b>Two mosques were demolished in Islamabad after it was feared that they could be used to launch attacks, particularly after military strikes on a suspected terrorist hideouts in Pakistan's South Waziristan earlier this week.</b>
<b>The Islamabad district administration and Capital Development Authority (CDA) demolished the two mosques near the Islamabad Highway and Murree Road after intelligence reports indicated they could be used to launch terrorist attacks,</b> the Daily Times said on Sunday.
Zafer Iqbal Zafer, the CDA Urban Planning Director, had issued notices to administrators of 10 mosques and their adjacent seminaries to remove unauthorised constructions from green areas within 15 days, sources said.
<b>The intelligence agencies had reported to the Interior Ministry that mosques in green areas near Murree Road and Islamabad Highway could be used by miscreants to target VIPs and foreign dignitaries, </b>sources told the daily.
When the mosque administrators did not heed the notices, the CDA anti-encroachment staff demolished Amir Hamza mosque near Murree Road and another mosque on the Islamabad Highway.
Religious leaders flayed the demolitions and alleged that the Government had done so to appease the US and European countries.
The clerics called an emergency meeting at Madni Mosque on Murree Road, at which Maulana Abdul Rauf and Qari Saeedur Rehman said the religious parties would protest the demolitions on Wednesday.
They condemned the CDA for issuing notices for removal of mosques that had been built even before the creation of Pakistan.<b> They claimed that Madni Mosque had been constructed in the early 1980s with the approval of the CDA</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now, Indian Muslim will start rioting on Friday.
PTI | Islamabad
Security cited as reason; religious leaders flay 'US appeasement'
<b>Two mosques were demolished in Islamabad after it was feared that they could be used to launch attacks, particularly after military strikes on a suspected terrorist hideouts in Pakistan's South Waziristan earlier this week.</b>
<b>The Islamabad district administration and Capital Development Authority (CDA) demolished the two mosques near the Islamabad Highway and Murree Road after intelligence reports indicated they could be used to launch terrorist attacks,</b> the Daily Times said on Sunday.
Zafer Iqbal Zafer, the CDA Urban Planning Director, had issued notices to administrators of 10 mosques and their adjacent seminaries to remove unauthorised constructions from green areas within 15 days, sources said.
<b>The intelligence agencies had reported to the Interior Ministry that mosques in green areas near Murree Road and Islamabad Highway could be used by miscreants to target VIPs and foreign dignitaries, </b>sources told the daily.
When the mosque administrators did not heed the notices, the CDA anti-encroachment staff demolished Amir Hamza mosque near Murree Road and another mosque on the Islamabad Highway.
Religious leaders flayed the demolitions and alleged that the Government had done so to appease the US and European countries.
The clerics called an emergency meeting at Madni Mosque on Murree Road, at which Maulana Abdul Rauf and Qari Saeedur Rehman said the religious parties would protest the demolitions on Wednesday.
They condemned the CDA for issuing notices for removal of mosques that had been built even before the creation of Pakistan.<b> They claimed that Madni Mosque had been constructed in the early 1980s with the approval of the CDA</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now, Indian Muslim will start rioting on Friday.