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Pakistan suspends polio vaccine drive after attacks on health workers
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Amid its inability to stamp out religious extremism, Pakistan has now "indefinitely" suspended its nationwide anti-polio campaign, to protect some 270,000 polio field staff from growing attacks.
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Ignorance stands before Pakistan's polio challenge
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 15 (ANI): Amid Pakistan's inability to stamp out religious extremism, the surging attack on the country's polio vaccine workers is hurting the government's vaccination drive.
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Elderly Uyghur woman detained in Xinjiang for 'religious extremism'
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 30 (ANI): Authorities in China's Xinjiang region confirmed the detainment of an elderly Uyghur woman in an internment camp earlier this year on suspicions of 'religious extremism' after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbours, informed authorities.
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'Religiosity in Pakistan leading to rise in terrorism in Pakistan'
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 1 (ANI): With terrorist attacks in Pakistan which is witnessing a growing religiosity that has brought greater intolerance among its people, experts have expressed concern about the possibility of the country being engulfed by religious extremism.
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FATF must blacklist Pakistan for promoting religious extremism and drug sm
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], September 20 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) spokesperson Gamshaad Baloch said in a statement that Pakistan is still vigorously promoting religious extremism in occupied Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Coronation Day celebration of Maharaja Gulab Singh in UK rattles Pakistan
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Leeds, [UK] April 8 (ANI): The Dogras from Mirpur city recently celebrated the 174th Coronation Day of Maharaja Gulab Singh, the founder of Jammu and Kashmir, and accused Pakistan of promoting religious extremism, militancy and `jihad' (holy war) in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Pakistan using religious extremism to counter Baloch nationalism, say acti
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 12 (ANI): Baloch and other human rights activists from Pakistan held a protest outside the United Nations office here to draw the attention towards growing human rights violations and the spread of religious extremism in Balochistan.
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Ethnic groups, minorities facing human rights violations in Pakistan: Alta
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct 24 (ANI): Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) founder and leader Altaf Hussain said that it's now widely known that all forms of terrorism and religious extremism are born in Pakistan. He stated that all ethnic linguistic groups and religious minorities, for decades, have been fa
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Religious extremism effectively contained: Xinjiang governor
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], Oct 19 (ANI): Chairman of the Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shohrat Zakir, claimed that the Chinese government's policies in the region have led to the containment of religious extremism, has brought peace and led to economic growth in Xinjiang.
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Pakistan: a laughing stock abroad and extremists reign at home
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 8 (ANI): The Faizabad sit-in has proved that Pakistan's national and foreign policy is now without a coherent governmental base, with religious extremism rampant in Pakistan, according to an article in The Dawn.
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Zardari calls for unity against religious extremism
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 5 (ANI): Former Pakistan president and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has called for unity against religious extremism, militancy and sectarianism.
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China bans burqas, abnormal beards in Muslim province of Xinjiang
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Apr. 1 (ANI): China, on Friday banned burqas, veils and abnormal beards in a Muslim province claiming that it is a crackdown on religious extremism.
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