The standoff between the Pakistani authorities and the clerics of the Lal
Masjid in Islamabad lastly broke downhill on the Evening of July 8, 2007,
when the official federal delegation led by Shujaat Hussain raised too the
negotiations surrounded by the militants holed up in the mosque hold achieved an
agreement. However, the clerics refused to release the hostages as promised by
them in the agreement. Musharraf therefore gave the militants side an hour to
abide by the agreement or have to handle the operation.
In addition to militants, there got numerous hundred classmen had hostages,
several of who got less important girls, whom got making used up as human
shields.
After the negotiations failed the troops got looking at the go in the near
future to storm the complex, that properties did. Codenamed "Operation Silence",
the task was to capture or kill the militants if properties resisted - as vastly
as rescuing all the classmen kept as hostages. Musharraf had carried on
criticised for particularlly for his inaction against the Lal Masjid.
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