Days after he was caught fleeing Islamabad’s Lal Masjid in a burqa, its captured chief cleric, Maulana Abdul Aziz, gave an incendiary funeral oration at the village burial of his slain brother, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, predicting the bloodshed would drive Pakistan toward an “Islamic revolution.”

In an apparent backlash to the week-long army siege that left 108 dead, a suicide bomber attacked the office of a top government official near the Afghan border, while thousands of angry tribesmen mourned three of the fallen militants.

Aziz was allowed to attend Ghazi’s burial at his ancestral village here. “Whatever happened in the past days is not hidden from anyone. God willing, Pakistan will have an Islamic revolution soon. The blood of martyrs will bear fruit,” Aziz said before leading the prayers attended by about 3,000 people.

“We can let our necks be severed but we cannot bow down before oppressive rulers. Our struggle will continue. There are many Ghazis living to be martyred,” he said.

Ghazi’s wooden coffin was surrounded by hundreds of mourners, many with tears in their eyes, as it was brought to a madrasa for burial. About two dozen police commandos led Aziz into the madrasa compound while some 700 police were deployed for security at the gathering, area police chief Maqsoodul Hassan Chaudhry said.

According to official reports, 108 people died in eight days of fighting around the Masjid and its adjoining seminary for girls, which had challenged the government with an increasingly aggressive anti-vice campaign in the capital. Some opposition figures claim the death toll was higher but have not offered any evidence.

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