Renowned physicist and activist Perevz Hoodbhoy has commented on Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz’s act of setting sofas at his seminary on fire on the grounds that Islam forbids sitting on a couch. In his article in Dawn newspaper, Hoodhboy took the extremist cleric to the cleaners by pointing out his hypocrisy. “While indeed […]
The Islamabad administration has deployed police around Jamia Hafsa in a bid to prevent Maulana Abdul Aziz, a former Lal Masjid prayer leader, from leaving the seminary. Aziz moved to Jamia Hafsa after an agreement with the government in June which stated that Aziz would not enter the mosque for two months. However, he recently […]
The authorities in Islamabad have once again cordoned-off Lal Masjid, as the tensions between the government and Maulana Abdul Aziz have risen following the disappearance of the cleric’s close aide. DAWN reported that the Special Branch alerted the capital administration and police that the cleric may break a recent agreement with the government and try […]