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Pakistan creating hostile environment for minorities by promoting extremis
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A research analyst lambasted Pakistan on Friday, accusing the country of creating a hostile environment for religious minorities by promoting Sunni Islamist extremism.
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Deep influence of Indian Islam in subcontinent: Experts
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Chishti Order is a 'tariqa', an order or school within the mystic Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam.
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Saudi Arabia bans Tablighi Jamaat, calls it 'one of the gates of terrorism
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], December 12 (ANI): Saudi Arabia has banned the Tablighi Jamaat, terming it a "danger to society" and "one of the gates of terrorism".
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Afghanistan's Sikhs to 'make choice between converting to Islam or leaving
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 22 (ANI): As the security scenario in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, Sikhs -- a community that was already in a dire situation before the collapse of the government -- practically have to make a choice between options of "converting to Sunni Islam or run a
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Pakistan witnessing rise of three-way Islamist turf war within Sunni Islam
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 15 (ANI): Pakistan is witnessing the rise of a three-way Islamist turf war within Sunni Islam with the advent of radical Barelvism, now rivalling the Deobandi and Wahabi schools of thought.
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Taliban removes Uzbek from official language status
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI): Contrary to their pledges of forming an inclusive government and respecting all the ethnicities in its Islamic Emirate, the Taliban removed Uzbek from official language status.
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Partners in Crime: Pakistan facilitates China's new export- Coronavirus
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 20 (ANI): It seems that Pakistan and China have become partners in actively spreading and exporting the Coronavirus across the globe. On March 10 nearly 80,000 members of a Sunni Islamic missionary movement called Tablighi Jamat gathered in the town of Raiwind, south of
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Egypt declares three days of mourning after terror attack
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], November 25 (ANI): Egypt has declared three days of national mourning in the wake of the terrorist attack that took place on Friday, claiming over 200 lives and wounded scores of worshippers.
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