The 'Khateeb' of Lal Masjid, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, has said that negotiations and arrests cannot go together. In an interview with Voice of Germany, he said that on one hand the government claimed to settle the issue amicably but, on the other, a large number of the seminary students had been arrested.
He said that the government had completed a plan to conduct operation on Monday night as it had shut down the markets and sealed off Islamabad, but avoided the operation as the media had set up cameras on the scene and had started live transmission.
"They want to launch operation in the darkness and displace the possible bodies and injured people from the scene," he claimed. "They have full plan of carrying out operation, and today they have picked 15 students, including teenagers," he added.
In reply to a question he said that talks "do not mean that detentions and negotiations may go side by side". "They are kidnapping and torturing our boys as we were holding talks with Chaudhry Shujat Hussain, but we want fair talks as we have not taken a single action during talks."
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