Tag: Sectarian

At least nine people were killed and several others injured in an exchange of fire between tribesmen from rival sectarian groups in Kurram Agency....

Seven people, including a minor girl, were gunned down while six others received bullet injuries in an ambush on a group of Shias in...

Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the centre of Cairo have left 51 people wounded, the health ministry said Sunday, as Coptic Christians pursued...

Egypt's military rulers said on Sunday that 190 people detained overnight in connection with deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo will face...

The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee has expressed concern over what it says is a conspiracy to spark sectarian violence in Pakistan, particularly...

DUBAI - Bahrain's foreign minister said his country, slammed over use of deadly force, feared its Shiite-led protests could spark sectarian conflict in other Gulf states, in an interview published Wednesday.
Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa also renewed accusations of his Shiite-majority state kingdom ruled by his Sunni royal family that Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah was "training" regime opponents.

CAIRO - Thirteen people were killed in violence between Egyptian Christians and Muslims, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, as sectarian tensions that appeared to evaporate in the country's revolution resurfaced. The Health Ministry said 140 people were wounded, state media reported.
The violence in Cairo on Tuesday night was the worst outbreak of sectarian strife since President Hosni Mubarak was swept from power on Feb. 11 by a mass uprising characterised by solidarity

KARACHI - The row between the University of Karachi (KU) administration and its teachers over the varsity syndicate's two controversial meetings has taken a sectarian colour, it has been learnt. A high-ranked KU official in an interview with Pakistan Today on Saturday alleged that a group of teachers belonging to a sect has started campaigning against the university's high-ups to tarnish their image.
"A particular group of teachers had started blackmailing the KU administration

CAIRO - Two men were killed during clashes in Egypt between Muslims and Christians, which also saw Muslims set fire to a church in the village of Sol, south of Cairo, a security official said on Saturday. "Two people were killed, and the Shahedain church set on fire in clashes between two families," the official told the MENA news agency.
The violence was triggered by a feud between the families, which disapproved of a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim

LAHORE - Former foreign minister and PML-Q (Likeminded) leader Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri while condemning the assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has urged the nation to rise above the sectarian divide to save the country from extremism.
Kasuri on Wednesday said the brutal killing of governor was a question mark over the change in society's 'mindset' towards 'fanaticism'. "If the spread of extremism was not checked sooner, it could be a 'societal disaster,' he warned.

CAIRO - Egyptian rights groups said on Tuesday the government's mishandling of sectarian rifts in the country created an environment that allowed attacks such as the New Year's Day church bombing.
The attack, in which a suicide bomber apparently detonated his explosives outside a church killing 21 people, led to three days of rioting and clashes between Copts and police.
It came after two years of mounting sectarian tensions that began with the January 2009 killing of six

CAIRO - Christians prayed Sunday at a church targeted by a suicide bomber who killed 21 people as Egypt pointed the finger of blame at international terrorism and fears of sectarian violence mounted.
"With our soul and our blood we will redeem the Holy Cross," the grieving congregation chanted at the Coptic Al-Qiddissin church in Alexandria at Sunday mass a day after the bombing. Bloodstains from Saturday's attack were still visible on the facade of the church where 21 people

LAHORE
Terrorists attacking mosques, shrines and imambargahs want to harm the unity of the nation but they will not succeed, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters after visiting the shrine of Hazrat Baba Farid Gunj Shakar in Pakpattan on Wednesday, he said that terrorists were enemies of both religion and humanity. Followers of Baba Farid all over the world were deeply shocked, he said.
Effective security had not allowed the

LAHORE
A Punjab University (PU) student on Friday wrote a written complaint to the PU Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran accusing his teacher of sectarian discrimination, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Student Syed Adnan Qureshi threatened to commit suicide if action was not taken against his teacher Shafia Bhatti. Qureshi alleged that Shafia had used derogatory words against the sacred places of his sect, which had badly hurt him. On the other hand, Shafia denied the