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At least 50 killed in gunmen attack on passenger vehicles in PakistanGunmen attacked two passenger convoys in Pakistan's Kurram district, killing at least 50 people and injuring 20 others. The convoys were tr...
25 people killed in days of clashes between Shiites and Sunni Muslims in PakistanAt least 25 people have been killed in clashes between Shiites and Sunni Muslims over a land dispute in Kurram, northwest Pakistan. The vio...
Pakistan under a strong clutch of sectarian violenceThe study seriously faults the Pakistani counter-terrorism approach as mostly reactive, when it should be proactive, because all institutio...
Fighting ISIS can lead to "sectarian violence" in India: Home MinistryAllowing Indians to take part in the conflict in Iraq or Syria would "directly result in sectarian conflict" and amount to promoting terror...
Pakistan mulls law to ban calling Muslims from other sects as kafirPakistan today said it plans to bring a legislation to ban declaring Muslims of other sects as 'kafirs' or infidels.
Gunmen kill 4 in sectarian violence in Pakistan's Baluchistan provinceFour persons,including three minority Shia Muslims,were killed in a firing incident of sectarian violence that broke out in Pakistan's Balu...
Nearly 3,000 killed in Karachi violence in 2014"The law enforcement agencies also killed some 594 suspected criminals and militants during January-December this year," an HRCP report sai...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon invokes Mahatma Gandhi's message of peace and nonviolenceUNAI, launched by Ban in November 2010, is committed to the "unlearning of intolerance" and to peace and conflict resolution.
Peaceful protests achieve more than military aggression: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moonHe said that the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, owe much t...
Oil prices shoot up on Iraq turmoilBenchmark brent crude oil prices surpassed $114 per barrel as the government in oil-producing Iraq continued to lose hold over cities in a ...
Why India Inc should care about MuzaffarnagarIf India is pockets of California in the middle of sub-Saharan Africa, as Amartya Sen puts it, then Muzaffarnagar is decidedly the latter.
Rape during riots will lead to imprisonment for lifeThe anti-rape bill passed in the LS has a provision that will classify rape committed during a communal riot as an aggravated case of rape.
- Sectarianism: Pakistan's mortal enemy within
The real threat to Pakistan's social fabric does not come from India, Afghanistan, the US or the army’s grip over the country’s affairs. It...
- Al-Qaeda behind recent Iraq violence: Gates
Al-Qaeda is behind a recent spate of bombings in Iraq designed to sow sectarian strife and take advantage of a drop in US troops, Defence S...
- Bike bomb kills five in NW Pakistan: Report
At least five people were killed and 10 others wounded Monday in a bomb blast in a troubled town in northwest Pakistan near the border with...
- 20 dead in Pakistan hospital bomb blast
A bomb blast ripped through a hospital on Tuesday in a northwestern Pakistani town that has been plagued by sectarian violence, killing at ...
- Sectarian violence claims five in Kashmir
Five persons were killed and over fifty wounded when a grenade exploded outside a mosque in south Kashmir village, well before the Friday c...