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| Wife of detained Lal Masjid cleric calls on Shujaat |
| 2008-01-26 |
| Umme Hasaan, wife of detained militant cleric Abdul Aziz, met Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at his house. This was ShujaatÂ’s second meeting with Umme Hasaan since her husbandÂ’s arrest, in which Shujaat assured her of his partyÂ’s full support. According to a press statement issued by ShujaatÂ’s media cell, Umme Hasaan told Shujaat that her husbandÂ’s health was deteriorating in jail. Shujaat assured all possible help to Abdul AzizÂ’s family, who was arrested last year during Operation Silence against clerics holed up in Lal Masjid. Meanwhile, Shujaat told a meeting of party candidates from Rawalpindi that the PML-Q would introduce Quranic education as a compulsory subject in public schools once his party is back in power. He said the party intended to turn Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state. |
| Posted by:Fred |