Pakistan agrees to clerics demands

Hussain was speaking after a second round of talks with clerics, who along with their hundreds of students from their madrasas had begun moral policing in Islamabad, local daily Dawn reported.

On enforcement of the Shariat, he said, “No Muslim rejects the enforcement of the Islamic system in the country,” but declined to elaborate.

Hussain paid a surprise visit to Lal Masjid and held talks with its in-charge Maulana Abdul Aziz and his deputy Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi.

He assured the clerics and students of Jamia Hasfa that the government was ready to accept their demands.