Aziz briefed on Hafsa issue

Published April 26, 2007

ISLAMABAD, April 25: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and discussed with him political issues, including the understanding reached with the administrators of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid.

The PML leader informed the prime minister about details of the clerics’ demands in return for giving up resistance and occupation of a children’s library. He said the demand for reconstruction of seven mosques in Islamabad and Rawalpindi had been accepted to end the stalemate.

—Reporter

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