Girl students of Jamia Hafsa launched a campaign against video centres in the federal capital on Monday.  

“Students of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid have started making rounds of various markets of the city, including the Melody Market, as part of their drive against video shops. We tried to convince the shopkeepers to leave this business and all of them have promised to quit,” said a statement by the seminary.

The statement said that girl students also entered a ‘brothel’. “Women teachers and students found fully made-up girls in the brothel, while they (the people in the brothel) were disturbed to see burqa-clad (veiled) girls,” the statement claimed.

The students claimed that the manager of the brothel threatened them, while they told her that “they only fear Allah”. “We will not back off because of your threats. We don’t fear anyone,” the students told the manager. They said that the brothel owner had also tried to intimidate their teachers over the phone.

The students claim that the area’s people also had complaints against the brothel. “A complaint centre has been set up in Lal Masjid. Also, students of Jamia Hafsa have set up a separate complaint centre for women in the seminary. People are requested to join hands with us in purging Islamabad of evil deeds,” the statement said.

Sources said the seminary students had planned to make surprise raids on markets to check adulteration. Aabpara Police Station House Officer Safeer Hussain Bhatti told Daily Times that no complaint had so for been lodged against the seminary students and the police would take action only after a complaint.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C03%5C27%5Cstory_27-3-2007_pg7_15

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