storey Jamia Hafsa building has become very bad due to the operation. He said structure engineers would inspect the premises and decide whether it was fit for use or should be demolished. Meanwhile, authorities are busy burying seventy-three persons, killed during the operation inside the compound, in the Islamabad graveyard. Military authorities handed over these bodies to the Islamabad administration on Wednesday for burial. We are burying them in accordance with the Islamic requirements, Islamabad s Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Mohammad Ali said. The militants commander, Maulana Abdur Rashid Ghazi, who was also killed in the operation, was buried in his native village of Basti Abdullah in district Rajanpur of Punjab on Thursday. His elder brother and commander-in-chief of the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa brigade, Maulana Abdul Aziz, who was arrested by security forces while fleeing from the compound in a burqa (veil) three days before the operation, was specially flown by the government to Basti Abdullah to lead the funeral prayer. He is now under arrest. Family members of Ghazi including his sisters were also facilitated by the government to see his dead body before it was laid in the grave. Ghazi was buried near a religious seminary named after his father, Maulana Abdullah. Hundreds of people of the area attended the funeral rites. Aziz told the reporters on the occasion that he sticks to his stand about enforcement of Islamic Shariah in Pakistan. He said his exit from the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa was part of a plan he and his brother, Ghazi, had prepared. Whatever happened after was a media drama, he said and added that he doesn t know the fate of his mother.
