IN THE summer of 2007, things were not looking good for Maulana Abdul Aziz, an extremist cleric who had just failed in his attempt to impose strict sharia law on Pakistan’s capital by force.
Asia | Pakistan’s Islamists
Returning with a vengeance
Seven years after the Red Mosque affair, a renowned extremist re-emerges
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