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"Govt committed to crackdown on child marriages": Assam Dy Speaker
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Earlier, Assam police arrested around 5,000 people during the first phase and arrested 15 clerics for their alleged role in child marriages.
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Pak: TLP leader makes death threat against Faraz Pervaiz, alleges him of b
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Faraz Pervaiz, a Pakistani national belonging to the Christian religious minority shared a post on social media saying that he is under threat as Muslim clerics are calling for his death for allegedly making blasphemous comments.
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Pakistan: Supreme Court to take Jaranwala blasphemy case today
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Jaranwala incident took place on August 16 where a crowd vandalised over 21 churches and set more than a hundred houses in Jaranwala on fire after clerics made announcements in the mosques inciting the mob to attack the Christian community under allegations of blasphemy.
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PoK: Unrest continues in Gilgit-Baltistan over clerics' derogatory remarks
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) has been dealing with a tense situation for the past week now over clerics court controversy, reported Dawn.
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Taliban stresses on implementation of Sharia in Afghanistan
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Taliban-appointed Acting Interior Minister of Afghanistan Sirajuddin Haqqani while speaking to a gathering of religious clerics, tribal elders and local officials in Laghman, said that the current Jihad in the country is to implement Sharia law.
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Pak: Local clerics ban transgender persons' music, dance at wedding
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The decision was made by a group of 26 clerics on Friday, who also ruled that clergy would not perform the nikah ritual at any marriages that included music and dance.
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Afghanistan: Clerics call upon Taliban to reopen schools for girls above s
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
"We ask the Islamic Emirate government to let girls get an education in accordance with Sharia law," TOLOnews quoted Nasrullah Urfan, a religious cleric, as saying.
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Conditions for reopening schools for girls above Grade 6 still unsuitable:
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Sayed Habibullah Agha said that the final decision regarding the reopening of the schools will be made by religious clerics.
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Afghan clerics calls on Taliban to ensure access of education to women in
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As Afghan females continue to suffer under Taliban's hardline regime, religious clerics of the country have called upon the Taliban to ensure access of educational opportunities, TOLOnews reported.
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Recent incidents of targeted attacks in Karachi deeply concerning, demand
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As per The Express Tribune, the senseless killing of eye specialist Dr Beerbal, and two clerics, Maulana Adil Khan and Maulana Rafiullah, in separate incidents is not only a tragic loss of life but also a blow to the social fabric of the city.
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Schools to allow women, girls back after formalising new curriculum, says
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"There is no problem with the start of schooling. There is only a problem with the curriculum. And therefore a committee has been formed for its reform. After confirmation of the clerics, the schools will begin," according to an official.
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Uyghurs strike back at pro-Chinese agenda propagated by Islamic clerics
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
TWMCC's actions discredit the entire mission and make it irrelevant to any positive or beneficial aid to the Uyghurs. It is a monstrous falsehood, an embarrassment and a millstone of shame for these individuals and their organizations.
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