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India-Pakistan
Holy man arrested for 'Pro-Taliban' Friday sermon
2015-01-23
[DAWN] LAHORE: A holy man was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by security agencies from Lahore on Wednesday.

The holy man, Qari Ahrar, a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) employee, was arrested on charges of supporting the Taliban during his Friday sermon last week. Ahrar had reportedly led a public 'dua' for the Taliban to emerge victorious.

Ahrar was a holy man in the CAA staff colony mosque in Lahore and was associated with the civil aviation for 20 years, CAA sources told Dawn.

Since the attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Army Public School on December 16, 2014, military and politicianship have formed a National Action Plan to counter terrorism.

Establishment of military courts in the country and lifting of a long-held moratorium on the death penalty have been a few of the major developments in this regard, along with the formation of multiple committees to deal with the many dimensions of the security threat.

Among those was also a committee to monitor hate speech, headed by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
.

The committee's prime responsibility was to make recommendations on how to counter hate speech and bad boy material.
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