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Abdul Aziz ( ) is a Pakistani cleric and Khateeb (prayer leader) in the central mosque of Islamabad known as Lal Masjid , which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army.1On 4 July 2007, he was arrested by the Pakistani police as he was trying to escape the complex while dressed in a burqa (veil)". According to his account, he was forced by authorities to rewear the burqa.2Aziz was released from custody by the Pakistani supreme court in 2009 and acquitted in 2013.3According to Shah Abdul Aziz, the justification for his cross-dressing escape is that he was deceived. He allegedly was called by a senior official of an intelligence agency with whom he allegedly had been in touch for long. Since this man could not enter into the mosque to meet him he asked Maulana Aziz to come down to Aabpara police station, situated on a walking distance from the mosque and asked him to wear a burqa to avoid identification. The mosque he leads operates the Jamia Hafsa madrassas and has a militia. Its followers have engaged in political protests and have been involved in vandalism, violence, kidnapping, and arson. In 2014, Aziz named a library at one of the mosque's seminaries after Osama Bin Laden .4
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Muhammad Abdul Aziz is a Pakistani cleric, son of Maulana Muhammad Abdullah and elder brother of Abdul Rashid . He was the Khateeb (prayer leader) in the central mosque of Islamabad known as Lal Masjid , which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army. On July 4, 2007, he was arrested by the Pakistani police as he was trying to escape the complex while dressed in a burqa .
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Abdul Aziz Ghazi ( ) is a Pakistani cleric and khateeb ( sermon giver) in the central mosque of Islamabad known as Lal Masjid , which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army. Aziz was released from custody by the Pakistani supreme court in 2009 and acquitted in 2013.
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Pakistani cleric (born 1963) Mawlānā Abdul Aziz ( ) is a Pakistani cleric and sermon preacher at Lal Masjid, Islamabad , which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army.He is also the current Chancellor of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Faridia , Aziz was released from custody by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2009 and acquitted in 2013.
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Pakistani religious cleric (born 1960) Abdul Aziz Ghazi (born 10 January 1960) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Islamist dissident belonging to the Deobandi movement within Sunni Islam , who serves as both the Imam and Khatib of Lal Masjid in Islamabad , which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army.Aziz also serves as the Chancellor & Chief Executive of Jamia Faridia and Jamia Hafsa , two influential Deobandi Islamic seminaries in Islamabad .He is the son of Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi , and elder brother of Abdul Rashid Ghazi .Aziz was arrested during Operation Sunrise but was later released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2009 and acquitted in 2013.There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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pakistani cleric
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pakistani islamic scholar and islamist dissident belonging to the deobandi movement within sunni islam
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