Thousands gather for Red Mosque seige anniversary
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Thousands of muslims have converged amid tight security in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, to commemorate the first anniversary of a deadly siege at the Red Mosque.
Troops surrounded the radical mosque on July 3, 2007 after clashes with Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants holed up inside.
They stormed it one week later.
More than 100 people were killed during the operation.
Qari Abdul Rashid, protest organiser and convenor of the Red Mosque Action Committee says there will be thousands of people at a day-long conference outside the mosque.
He says they will be urging the Pakistan government to free mosque leader Abdul Aziz, who was caught fleeing in a woman's burqa on the second day of the siege.
