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 LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Chanting "down with Talibanization," hundreds of human rights activists marched through Pakistani cities Thursday, urging the government to rein in clerics who have launched an anti-vice campaign in the capital.
About 500 activists gathered for a rally in the eastern city of Lahore to condemn the vigilante campaign. "We reject Talibanization, we reject Mullah-ism," Asma Jehangir, a prominent Pakistani rights activist, told the rally.
Similar rallies drew about 150 activists in Islamabad and Karachi and 70 in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
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