(16 Jul 2005)
July 16, 2005 Lahore
1. Various of street scenes in Lahore city
2. Exterior of Jamia Manzoor-ul-Islam school
3. Close-up of sign on building
4. Policemen sitting inside the school
5. Wide shot press conference
6. Cutaway journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu): Muhammad Asad Farooq, spokesperson for Jamia Manzoor-ul-Islam
"We differ in the opinion that he (Shahzad Tanweer) stayed a few days or month in this Madrassah and he studied here for a few days. I strongly condemn this. He has no connection with this institution. This institution is in a sensitive area and in this area foreigners are not allowed. If we know of any foreigner entered in our institution, we kick them out."
8. Two shots of Muhammad Asad Farooq and Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, Religious Affairs Adviser to Punjab government
9. Cutaway journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (Urdu): Muhammad Asad Farooq, spokesperson for Jamia Manzoor-ul-Islam
"We condemn the terrorism and those who are doing it in the name of religion and Islam whereever it is happening. Once again specifically, we condemn this recent attack in United Kingdom."
11. City shot of the Lahore
STORY LINE
Pakistani authorities on Saturday questioned students, teachers and administrators at one of two religious schools believed to have been visited by a suspect in the London bombings.
Intelligence officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said agents were dispatched to the Jamia Manzoor-ul-Islam seminary in central Lahore, one of two religious schools - or madrassas - allegedly visited by the suspect Shahzad Tanweer.
British investigators say 22-year-old Tanweer carried out the bombing of the London Underground's Aldgate station.
Asad Farooq, a spokesman for Jamia Manzoor-ul-Islam denied Tanweer had ever been at the school.
"He has no connection with this institution. This institution is in a sensitive area and in this area foreigners are not allowed. If we know of any foreigner entered in our institution, we kick them out," Farooq said.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials said authorities were examining a possible connection between Tanweer and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups.
Police and Interior Ministry officials, meanwhile, denied reports that arrests had been made in the case.
Intelligence officials say Tanweer also spent four or five days at a second school - the Markaz Taiba in Muridke - during the year, then travelled to Faisalabad to meet with Osama Nazir, a militant from the al-Qaida-linked Jaish-e-Mohammed group.
However Mohammed Azam, who is in charge of the 60-acre complex, denied that Tanweer had ever been there.
The school has been linked to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, an outlawed Sunni Muslim group believed to have been behind a deadly 2001 attack on India's Parliament.
Tanweer's uncle, Bashir Ahmed in England has confirmed that his nephew travelled to Lahore earlier this year to study Islam.
On Friday, intelligence officials visited two other religious schools - Masjid Ibrahimi and Masjid Abu Huraira - in Faisalabad, 75 miles southwest of Lahore.
They showed pictures of Tanweer to students, teachers and administrators, however there was no confirmation that Tanweer had visited the institutions.
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