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CII urges inclusion of jihad verses in Pak school curriculum
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.7 (ANI): Expressing concern over excluding proposed jihad verses from the school curriculum, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), top religious advisory body, has demanded the Pakistan Government to include the said verses.
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Pak's Islamic advisory finds clauses of Hague Convention for child ab
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): As Pakistan prepares to sign a key international document against child abduction this year, the country's top Islamic advisory body has declared that some of its clauses are in conflict with the Constitution of Pakistan and Islam.
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Pak, Iran to collaborate against Islamic State
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): Pakistan and Iran have agreed to cooperate in countering threats posed by an extremist Middle Eastern terrorist outfit, which has set up a self-styled caliphate across large swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.
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IS losing ground but continues to inspire attacks: Obama
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington, Aug.5 (ANI): Admitting that efforts to find a solution to the Syria crisis are turning his hair grey, U.S. President Barack Obama has said that Islamic State (IS) group is losing ground in the Middle East but it continues to inspire attacks around the world.
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After son, Pakistani-origin man convicted in Norway for joining ISIS
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 4 (ANI): An Oslo court in Norway sentenced a Pakistani-origin man to six years in prison for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Myanmar probing reports of Islamic State threat against Suu Kyi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Naypyidaw (Myanmar), Aug. 4 (ANI): Myanmar authorities have launched an investigation after reports surfaced that there is a threat by the Islamic State group to kill State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and several other leaders.
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Islamic body rejects Pak government's proposal to include Quran in sc
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 4 (ANI): The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has rejected the Pakistan government's proposal to include teachings of Quran in the schools syllabus up to tenth standard.
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US designates Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Abrini on terrorist list
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 4(ANI): The United States State Department has designated Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Mohamed Abrini, a member of the Europe-based Islamic State as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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Most IS men in Afghanistan are Pakistan Taliban fighters, says US Commande
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 1 (ANI): Commander of the US and the NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. John W. Nicholson has said almost 70 per cent of the fighters of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Afghanistan are Pakistani Taliban who joined IS after having been forced out of their country.
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Explosives expert of ISIS arrested in Afghanistan's Nangarhar provinc
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul, July 27 (ANI): A key member of the Islamic State terrorist group operating as explosives expert has been arrested by the Afghan intelligence operatives in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province.
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Detained militant in Dhaka raid claims IS link
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka, July 26 (ANI): A militant, who was held during a special drive of the joint forces in Dhaka's Kalyanpur killing nine militants, has confessed to be an operative of the Islamic State.
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Maha ATS identifies 270 URLs showing IS activities, asks Centre to block t
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai, July 26 (ANI): Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police has stumbled upon 270 Uniform Resource Locators (URL), commonly known as web addresses, that deal with terror group Islamic State's doctrine.
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