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| Paramilitary police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, have clashed with radical Islamist students outside a controversial mosque in the city. | Paramilitary police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, have clashed with radical Islamist students outside a controversial mosque in the city. |
| Reports say police fired tear gas at a group of students and that students then opened fire with guns. | |
| For several months armed students and clerics at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and its two religious schools have been defying the authorities. | For several months armed students and clerics at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and its two religious schools have been defying the authorities. |
| Clerics at the mosque are campaigning for Islamic Sharia law in the capital. | Clerics at the mosque are campaigning for Islamic Sharia law in the capital. |
| Two students and one police officer are reported to have been injured in Tuesday's violence. | |
| Reinforcements | |
| Students are armed with sticks and petrol bombs and some are wearing masks, the BBC Urdu service's Haroon Rashid who is at the scene says. | |
| The mosque has two religious schools attached to it | |
| Our correspondent says the atmosphere is tense and that he has heard some shots that sounded like they came from within the mosque. | |
| There are two religious schools (madrassas) attached to the mosque, one for men, one for women. | |
| The trouble started when a group of female students came out in large numbers and the paramilitary police used teargas against them. | |
| Extra police had been deployed around the mosque earlier in the day. | |
| An official said the move was to prevent the seminary students from taking the law into their own hands. | |
| The Red Mosque and its seminaries have been at the centre of a number of confrontations with the authorities. They include the kidnapping of police and people the mosque says are involved in immoral activities. | |
| Critics have attacked the government for failing to enforce its authority in the capital. | |
| Correspondents say the authorities seem unwilling or unable to act.President Musharraf has said security forces cannot raid the mosque for fear of reprisal suicide attacks. |