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YANGON: A group of men from a village in central Myanmar destroyed a mosque in the first serious outburst of inter-religious violence in months, coinciding with a rise in tensions over how to refer to the Rohingya, the country's persecuted Muslim minority.

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has said prominent religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel will address the provincial assembly.

TARANAGAR: As a truck screeches to a halt on an Indian highway in the middle of the night, devout young Hindus armed with sticks scramble inside, searching for cows they consider sacred.

ISLAMABAD: Justice Asif Saeed Khosa of the Supreme Court, while hearing a plea of Mumtaz Qadri, expressed reservation that if people took law in hands to punish blasphemers then a trend will start which will be “dangerous for society”.

KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said that the Parsi community was the pride of Pakistan.

KARACHI: Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated across the country with religious fervour and zeal on Saturday (July 18). 

RIYADH: A video of a Saudi religious policeman shouting at a veiled woman and barring her from entering a shop for not wearing gloves has gone viral on the Internet.

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Pakistan to move quickly to protect religious minorities following an attack that killed at least 43 members of the Ismaili community.

WASHINGTON: US government commission on religious freedom has stated Pakistan is one of the least religious tolerant country in the world, ARY News reports on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD: The negotiations between the government and religious seminaries, over bringing reforms in madrassahs, ended inconclusively in Islamabad today, ARY News reported.

NEW DELHI: Police in Vadodara have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between Hindus and Muslims that left more than a dozen injured and was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday.

NEW YORK: More members of religious communities around the world were forced to flee their homes last year than at any time in recent memory, the United States said on Monday, in its annual report on religious freedom.