Its not been too long since the Jamia Hafsa brigade sheathed in Burqa's and armed with their weapons and Quran's tried to dictate morality to the Islamabadi elite.

Everyone knows how the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) fiasco ended for my namesake-President Musharraf. As an Indian
Muslim I am often in a Pakistan state of mind. Events in my neighbours' country, which is a mirror in so many ways of my own (and yet not) are always paramount in my mind.