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| India-Pakistan |
| Shujaat meets Lal Masjid brothers |
| 2007-04-09 |
| In the first ever high-level contact between the government and administration of Lal Masjid, PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain called on Lal Masjid Imam Maulana Abdul Aziz and his brother Ghazi Abdur Rashid late on Saturday night to talk out the row with the mosque over the enforcement of Sharia. Shujaat visited Lal Masjid accompanied by a delegation and stayed there until Sunday morning. Sources privy to the meeting told Daily Times that the announcement of the Lal Masjid administration that it would enforce Sharia and set up a Qazi court was the focus of the discussion. Shujaat told the two brothers that the government wanted to solve the crisis through peaceful means and it had no intention of using force in this regard. Another round of talks between the two sides is likely to take place during the current week. Talking to Daily Times, Ghazi Abdur Rashid said that the meeting could not be termed formal talks. “It was just an informal gesture by the PML leader to discuss ways and means to solve the crisis. We told Chaudhry Shujaat that we would not bow to the government’s pressure on enforcement of Sharia and implementation of Islam in all sections of society,” Rashid said. |
| Posted by:Fred |