Pak to shut down brothels

The government has apparently decided to resolve the stand-off with a group of radical Islamic clerics by meeting one of their key demands8212;closing down brothels in the capital. This is one of the main demands made by the clerics of Lal Masjid, who control a large madrasa in Islamabad, as a trade-off for veiled girls of the seminary to end their occupation of a children8217;s library in the city, local daily The News reported.