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May 21, 2012

Pakistan Supreme Court all set to reward Lal Masjid fanatics

The honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan says he is losing patience with the Capital Development Authority (CDA). In a court-initiated (suo motu) action, he wants a quick rebuilding of the Jamia Hafsa madrassa, flattened by bulldozers in 2007, after it became the centre of an insurgency. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the CJ, is now dragging procrastinators over the coals by issuing notices to the CDA chairman, Islamabad’s chief commissioner and the interior secretary. The Court has also expressed its "displeasure" over the status of police cases against the Lal Masjid clerics and ordered the deputy attorney general to appear before it next week.

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