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Radicals release 9 hostages
23/06/2007 17:58 - (SA)
Islamabad - Students from a radical mosque released on Saturday nine hostages who had earlier been taken from an alleged brothel in the Pakistani capital, a mosque leader said.
"After the administration assured us they would close down the massage parlours in Islamabad, and in view of the Pakistan-China friendship, we are releasing all nine men and women," said Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy head of the mosque.
Students from the pro-Taliban Red Mosque raided the acupuncture and massage clinic, which they said was a brothel, early on Saturday kidnapping nine people, including six Chinese women.
Vulgarity and obscenity
"This is a natural reaction of students against vulgarity and obscenity. Foreign girls at the massage centre were having sinful acts with men," the students said before the hostages were released.
Hard-line clerics from the Red Mosque have carried out previous kidnappings of policemen and raids at alleged brothels, as well as at shops selling music and videos, which the mosque's members consider vulgar.
- AFP
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