The Storming of the Red Mosque

Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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When armed militants took over a mosque in central Islamabad, they were protected by thousands of religious students who supported them and refused to leave the site. Government troops were sent in to end the siege. Three female students describe what it was like to be on the inside of the Red Mosque.(Photo: Students of the Jamia Hafsa Madrassa Islamabad. Credit: Associated Press)