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Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - Pakistan in crisis over mosque attack

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - Pakistan in crisis over mosque attackApparently, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the leader of the opposition in Parliament, gave his tacit support for the government to confront the Taliban. The opposition six-party religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), is also said to have agreed with Musharraf during a National Security Council meeting on Monday that extremism should be confronted with "iron hands".

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