A hardline Pakistani cleric has delivered a defiant sermon at the Red Mosque, his first since being freed from house arrest over a 2007 siege.
Chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz had been detained when troops stormed the Islamabad mosque to end the siege.
He told thousands of supporters at the mosque on Friday: "The day is not far away when Islam will be enforced in the whole of the country."
The storming of the mosque left more than 100 people dead.
The action led to a wave of suicide bombings by militant groups in the north-west.
'Peaceful work'
Religious eulogies rang out from loudspeakers as Maulana Aziz arrived to deliver his Friday afternoon sermon.
His followers said they were in memory of those "martyred" two years ago.
Maulana Aziz said to his supporters: "I tell you that you should be ready to make sacrifices for Islam.
"What we have seen in Swat and the tribal areas is the result of the sacrifices at the Red Mosque: the students, the people who were martyred," he said...
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Salam
Is this the same guy who fled the mosque wearing women's clothes.
That was so funny, Abdul Aziz being captured in a girl's dress.
I saw it on BBC and fell laughing on the floor. What a moron.
It was back in 2007, when the dodgy cleric put on
the ladies' dress and ran from the Red Mosque when police officers were chasing him.
How can he now be giving a sermon about courage.
He should take a cup, fill it with water, and drown himself in it.
Shame on his congregation that sits and listens to this idiot.
His brother Ghazi has was killed in the shoot out in Islamabad
because he refused to flee like Aziz.
I think Gazi may have had more balls, or there were no more burkas available !!
Omrow