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BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Clashes erupt at Pakistan mosque
Firing outside Islamabad mosque
Lal Masjid students have had previous standoffs with authorities
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.
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 take action.