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The Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, has two attached seminaries, for male and female religious students.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, has two attached seminaries, for male and female religious students. Two brothers who run this establishment have long been fanaticizing these students, of whom there are over 5,000. Their purpose is to install a Taliban-type regime, by force if need be. Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the president, has allowed this challenge to develop, shrugging off attempts on his life, and what are evident preparations for a coup. He's reached the predicament that the Shah of Iran was once in--either to allow the Islamists to take over or to overpower them. Musharraf has chosen to send ...

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