On Wednesday it said that senior Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah had been wounded in the fighting.

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So far, probably the best work of Tafseer in English is by Maulana Abul A'la Maududi.

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The men, who were released, were Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Zargar.

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Maulana Azhar maintains a low profile these days and no longer wields the same power.

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Maulana Fazlullah is the son-in-law of radical cleric Sufi Mohammad who led an insurgency in the 1990s.

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He was influenced by a contemporary, Maulana Maudoodi in India, who was also repelled by modernity and saw it as barbarism.

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The maulana, who has since been rearrested, denies any role in the violence and has gone on television to plead for harmony.

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Maulana Hyderi was the fourth chief of the SSP to be killed since it was formed in the late 1980s by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.

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Tribunal officials said Maulana Azad's family failed to co-operate with his court-appointed defence lawyer, and they did not provide any witnesses to testify on his behalf.

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Maulana Hyderi was driving back to the southern city of Hyderabad, 200km (124 miles) east of the port city of Karachi, at the time of the attack.

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Nor could Ms Bhutto ultimately countenance a pact with the Islamists, under which Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a cleric known for his pro-Taliban, anti-American views, would have become prime minister.

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