The President of Pakistan has called on his people to undertake a jihad, or holy war, against religious extremism in a speech about the wave of arrests that he has ordered in the aftermath of the London bombings on July 7.

'I urge you, my nation, to stand up and wage jihad against extremism and to stand up against those who spread hatred and chaos in the society,' said President Pervez Musharraf in an hour-long televised address.

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