“The crowd began searching through the rubble (of Laal Musjid) of a women’s seminary next to the mosque, which the government had bulldozed after the battle. An arm with rotting flesh was tugged out, as was bloody clothing, a jumble of bones and burnt fragments of a Quran. A black shroud of cloth cov- ered a mound on the dirt – witnesses said it was a body pulled out from under the debris.

‘Musharraf will pay the price for this massacre,’ wailed one woman, who was sitting on a heap of bricks and twisted metal. When paramilitary forces arrived with riot shields, men in the crowd
began hurling rocks while chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ – ‘God is great’ in Arabic. Tear-gas canisters followed, pushing the men back for a few mo- ments before they regrouped and again began throwing stones.”

(McClatchy Newspapers – Washington Bureau – 27 July 2007)