July 11, 2007	Wednesday	Jamadi-us-Sani 25, 1428

DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 10: Police have kept two seminaries in Rojhan, the hometown of Ghazi brothers, under a strict surveillance after a military operation at the Lal Masjid in Islamabad.

Policemen are keeping the record of those staying or visiting Madressa Ali Murtaza and Madressa Abdul bin Ghazi.

Rujhan, the tribal headquarters of the Mazari tribe, is also the native town of Abdul Aziz Ghazi and Abdul Rasheed Ghazi. Both brothers were at the centre of the months-long Lal Masjid standoff. Rasheed Ghazi was killed on Tuesday while his brother Aziz Ghazi was captured by security forces while trying to flee in a burqa on Wednesday.

Both clerics belonged to the Sadwani tribe, a sub-clan of the Mazari tribe.

Rojhan remained peaceful on Tuesday as no reaction was witnessed over the killing of Rasheed Ghazi, locally known as Rasheed Sadwani.

Rasheed Ghazi was born to Maulana Abdullah in 1962 in Rojhan while his elder brother Aziz Sadwani was born in 1956 at Mauza Gada Nar, Bangla Ichha. Maulana Abdullah became the Khateeb of Lal Masjid reportedly on the recommendation of General Ziaul Haq in the 80s.

The Ghazi family was largely respected in their native town because of their religious services as they established two seminaries in the area

Sources said that according to tribal rituals Rasheed Ghazi, his mother and other relatives who were killed in the operation might be buried in their native graveyard.

During the early days of the Lal Masjid standoff, it was believed over a hundred tribesmen had gone to Islamabad to help the Ghazi brothers fight the government. But the Rajanpur district administration says nobody left Rojhan for Islamabad.