Tag: Sectarian

Myanmar beefs up security amid sectarian clashes

Security forces flooded western Myanmar Saturday to prevent further outbreaks of sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims which have left at least seven dead,...

Three killed, six injured as miscreants attack Passenger bus

Terrorists attacked a passenger bus in Kurram Agency, killing at least three people and injuring six others. According to the sources, the passenger bus was...

Pakistan in denial over spreading sectarian violence?

While banned political groups preach hatred towards religious minorities in Pakistan's major cities, a conflict along sectarian lines is spreading across the country, even...

Police shoot dead ‘two sectarian killers’

Police shot dead two people allegedly involved in sectarian violence in the troubled province of Balochistan, officials said Monday. Anti-terrorists officers in the province,...

Sectarian killings a conspiracy: Altaf

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the unabated bloodshed of innocent people in Quetta, Gilgit and Karachi in sectarian violence and...

Strike observed in Quetta against sectarian killings

A shutter-down strike was observed in Quetta on Friday against the sectarian killing of six Shias the previous day. On Thursday, unknown attackers had...

HRCP wants military help to quell sectarian violence

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday demanded that whenever required, the military could be called in to curb sectarian violence in any...

Kohistan killings

The security apparatus slumbers Sectarian terrorists who continue to be on a rampage killed 16 members of the Shia community travelling from Rawalpindi to Gilgit-Baltistan...

Two ‘sectarian’ murders in Federal B Area

In what appears to be a case of sectarian murders, two men belonging to the Deoband sect were gunned down in Block 16 of...

Fazalullah responsible for sectarian violence: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Maulvi Fazalullah, the Swat Taliban chief, is responsible for all the ongoing sectarian attacks. Talking to media on...

True story, sectarian bias, or a personal vendetta?

Additional District & Sessions Judge Hamid Hussain awarded life imprisonment to a convict accused of burning the Holy Quran. The imprisonment was awarded when the...

Unity in difference

I am writing this letter to bring to your attention the issue of increasing intolerance in Pakistan. Pakistan has a lot of diversity in...

Karzai blames LJ for rare sectarian attacks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed Pakistan’s extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group for a bomb at a Kabul shrine that killed 59 people, demanding justice from Pakistan...

Five injured, two critically, in Jhang sectarian clash

At least five people were injured, two critically, in a sectarian clash on the eve of Ashura in Jhang on Monday. The incident occurred...

Fight for the white stripe

The growing acts of intolerance against the minorities in Pakistan should be cause for great concern for everybody in the country. We keep harping on...

Lack of action emboldened sectarian killers: HRCP

The government came under heavy criticism from Shiite Muslims and a leading rights watchdog on Wednesday after 29 people died in the worst attacks...

11 more fall prey to sectarian strife in Quetta

At least 11 people, 10 of them Shias, were killed and four others wounded when a passenger van was attacked on its way into...