On Jan. 17, Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri, the populist Sufi cleric calling for election reform, announced that he had reached a deal with the Pakistani government and that he would call an end to the mass sit-in outside parliament in Islamabad. In this photo taken on the same day, the cleric's supporters wave national flags as they celebrate victory in their demand for electoral reform. See this FP slide show for more pictures of the protests that roiled Islamabad this week, and read Arif Rafiq's piece on the sudden appearance of Tahir ul-Qadri and what Pakistan's historically meddlesome military has to do with all this.
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