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Iranians protest 'Bloody Friday' security force crackdown as nationwide un
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Thousands of Iranians have protested in the nation's southeast to mark a September crackdown by security forces known as "Bloody Friday".
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Over 4,000 Shias killed in eight years due to sectarian violence in Pakist
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 24 (ANI): Pakistan is facing multiple fault lines that are hampering the growth of the already conditioned economy of the country, including a breakdown of law and order domestically, which poses major challenges to the establishment and sectarian violence.
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Pakistan: State patronage propels Sunni groups to target Shias, Ahmadis
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Sectarian violence in Pakistan is on the rise as Sunni groups are threatening Shias, Ahmadis and non-Muslim minorities under the state patronage.
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Karachi: Saga of crime city of Pakistan, hotbed of lawlessness
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan and the premier industrial and financial centre is a hotbed of lawlessness.
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Sectarian violence rising, spreading across Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 17 (ANI): Sunni Muslim groups, the Deobandi Tehereek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the rival Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) that represents the Barelvis, are fomenting sectarian violence across Pakistan.
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Taliban rulers wary of Pakistan meddling at US behest
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 29 (ANI): After the recent replacement of the Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan, media reports emerged saying that this outcome emerged from Pakistan's persistent interference in governance issues in Afghanistan that has started irking the Taliban.
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Hindu forces pushing nation towards hatred: Sunni Ulema Council on 'azaan'
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 7 (ANI): With several groups launching campaigns against the playing of 'azaan' through loudspeakers at mosques, the Sunni Ulema Council accused the Hindu forces of pushing the nation towards hatred.
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Pakistan witnesses unprecedented rise in attacks and arrests against Shia
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan has witnessed an unprecedented rise in attacks and arrests against its Shia minority, who make up between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of the Sunni-majority country, a media report said on Thursday.
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Violence against Shia Muslims continues unabated in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): Pakistan's largest Muslim minority, Shias Muslims are living under the shadow of fear post a terror attack by a suicide bomber on a Shia mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayers.
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IUML Kerala President Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal passes away a
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], March 6 (ANI): Panakkad Sayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal, the state President of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), passed away at the age of 74 due to cancer.
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Former Afghan govt employee Sunni Hazara shot dead by Taliban
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 2 (ANI): A Sunni Hazara, who was a former employee of the previous Afghan Government on Tuesday was shot dead by the Taliban.
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Kerala BJP leader flays Muslim scholar for attacking Governor Arif Mahamme
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], February 21 (ANI): Kerala BJP vice president KS Radhakrishnan on Monday condemned the statement of Sunni scholar Abdul Hameed Faizi Ambalakkadavu against Kerala Governor Arif Mahammed Khan by saying that he has "opened the door out of Islam by offering prayers at the
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