MOSQUE LEADER IN BURQA ESCAPE BID !
The cleric stood out from the girls as he "was taller and had a pot belly". The leader of a radical mosque besieged by Pakistani security forces in Islamabad has been caught trying to escape wearing a woman's burqa.
Security forces seized Abdul Aziz as he tried to leave the Red Mosque amid a crowd of women.
The mosque has been besieged by Pakistani security forces and militant students holed up inside have been told to give themselves up.
Clerics at the mosque are campaigning for Islamic Sharia law to be enforced.
"He was the last in a group of seven women all wearing the same clothes. He was wearing a burqa that also covered his eyes," a security official told the AFP news agency about the cleric's escape bid.
"Our men spotted his unusual demeanour. The rest of the girls looked like girls, but he was taller and had a pot belly."
About 700 students surrendered at the mosque earlier Wednesday.
Female students who were let out were allowed to go home, while male students were held and searched.
Earlier, troops in armoured personnel carriers surrounded the mosque as helicopter gunships circled overhead.
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