Pakistan’s ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, was on Wednesday weighing up the risks of triggering a conflagration in storming a radical religious seminary in central Islamabad where students are holding hostage a number of policemen.
Tensions have been mounting in the Pakistani capital amid fears that a government-ordered raid on the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) would provoke unprecedented violence across the country’s madrassah belt.
