The Pakistani government on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it had released a total of 1,071 Lal Masjid religious students after the operation on July 10.
The Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad submitted a concise statement to the Supreme Court, disclosing that 1,132 religious students including 662 men and 470 women surrendered or were arrested in the Lal Masjid operation, out of which 604 men and 467 women had been released, according to a report of the News Network International (NNI) news agency.
The standing counsel for the federation Shamshad Cheema, while presenting the statement, informed the court that 57 persons are in judicial custody and one person is in hospital and required by the police, NNI said.
The statement said that a total of 77 bodies of male students were recovered from the Lal Masjid compound. Most of them did not belong to either Lal Masjid or Jamia Hafsa, an affiliated seminary of the mosque, but belonged to those who had come in support of the Lal Masjid administration.
A total of 102 people including 11 security force officials and 91 civilians both inside and outside the Lal Masjid compound lost their lives during the operation, launched by security forces on July 10 after the government's last-ditch efforts to resolve the standoff peacefully failed on July 9, the Pakistani government said in a statement on July 13.
The Lal Masjid religious students on July 3 tried to snatch arms and wireless sets from security forces deployed around the mosque and attacked them, fueling crossfires. The security forces besieged the mosque after the clashes.
Source: Xinhua
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