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Activists from a hardline religious group block a street during a protest in Islamabad. (Photo: AFP)

Pak on edge as govt tackles sit-in

Fear of Lal Masjid-like violence lurks as govt deals' with hardline protesters.

20 Nov 2017 5:42 AM IST

Surely its time to recall how appeasing terrorism culminated in the horrific disaster of 2007. Thats when Islamabad became a battlefield above which thick smoke filled the sky for days. (Photo: ANI)

Lal Masjid: Is Pakistan's govt beginning to appease terror again?

The mosque's clerics had attracted around them a core of banned militant organisations including Al Qaeda and...

24 Feb 2020 3:23 AM IST

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

A culture that bans films is afraid to face the truth

The government's retraction of the permission to screen Zindagi Tamasha gave certain religious elements a greater sense...

5 March 2020 2:02 AM IST