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Radical Pakistani religious cleric dies after leading sit-in

by Asim TanveerBabar Dogar
| November 19, 2020 11:30 AM

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Khadim Hussein Rizvi, a radical Pakistani religious scholar who this week led thousands of supporters into a sit-in in Islamabad over the republishing in France of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which they deem blasphemous, died on Thursday. He was 54.

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