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Operation Silence
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Siege of Lal Masjid.
The siege of Lal Masjid (Urdu: لال مسجد محاصرہ; code-namedOperation Sunrise initially code-named as Operation Silence) was an armed confrontation in July 2007 between a Islamistfundamentalistprivate militia and the government of Pakistan, led by president Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Shaukat Aziz. The focal points of the operation were the Lal Masjid ("Red Mosque") and the Jamia Hafsamadrasah complex in Islamabad, Pakistan.