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Abdul Aziz () is a Pakistani cleric and Khateeb (prayer leader) in the central mosque of Islamabad known as Lal Masjid, which was the site of a siege in 2007 with the Pakistani army. On 4 July 2007, he was arrested by the Pakistani police as he was trying to escape the complex while dressed in a burqa (veil)". According to his account, he was forced by authorities to rewear the burqa. Aziz was released from custody by the Pakistani supreme court in 2009 and acquitted in 2013. According to Shah Abdul Aziz, the justification for his cross-dressing escape is that he was deceived. He allegedly was called by a senior official of an intelligence agency with whom he allegedly had been in touch for long. Since this man could not enter into the mosque to meet him he asked Maulana Aziz to come down to Aabpara police station, situated on a walking distance from the mosque and asked him to wear a burqa to avoid identification. The mosque he leads operates the Jamia Hafsa madrassas and has a militia. Its followers have engaged in political protests and have been involved in vandalism, violence, kidnapping, and arson. In 2014, Aziz named a library at one of the mosque's seminaries after Osama Bin Laden. ==Background== Aziz came to Islamabad as a six-year-old boy from his home town in Punjab, when his father was appointed Khateeb of Lal-Masjid in 1966. He grew up in the liberal atmosphere of Islamabad. Aziz is the son of Maulana Muhammad Abdullah, the first prayer leader of Lal-Masjid, and elder brother of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in a government raid. Abdul Aziz is descended from Sadwani clan of Mazari tribe in the town of Rojhan at the border of southern Punjab and Balochistan. Pakistan's last military ruler, General Zia-ul-Haq, was said to be very close to Maulana Abdullah. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Aziz Ghazi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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