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LAHORE, July 19: The Tanzeem-i-Islami and Khaksar Tehrik on Thursday protested against the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa operation and the blast at a lawyers’ rally in Islamabad and called for a judicial inquiry into these incidents. —Correspondent

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