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Pakistan faces a strategic crossroads, caught between alliances and regional conflicts. Past involvements in foreign wars, driven by external powers, have led to domestic instability and blowback. Now, a new defence pact with Saudi Arabia and escalating conflict with Afghanistan highlight the nation's struggle to balance relevance with long-term stability, risking further entanglement.

Repeated failures to rein in sectarian clashes in Old City leading to major law and order crisis have compelled Lucknow police to rework the strategy that has been in place for decades.

The curfew imposed in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi after sectarian clashes left at least 10 people dead was lifted today, giving respite to the common man.

The death toll in a sectarian clash in northwest Pakistan rose to seven today as some persons succumbed to injuries sustained in the fighting.

A 20-year-old college student was killed and two injured in a sectarian clash at Sindhbal in Jammu & Kashmir's Ganderbal district on Monday night. This is the first such clash reported from Kashmir.

Authorities today imposed curfew in areas under nine police stations here following sectarian clashes in the old city this afternoon.

Curfew imposed in parts of the city following sectarian clashes continued for the seventh day on Tuesday.

Nearly 8,000 people were killed in violent incidents, including terrorist attacks, military operations and sectarian clashes, in Pakistan during the past year, said a report issued today by a think tank.

A fresh round of curfew was enforced today in parts of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, following fresh sectarian tension yesterday.

The bodies of 12 tribesmen abducted last week were found on Monday morning in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram Agency, which has been rocked by violent sectarian clashes.

Northern Ireland's devolved government will meet to be briefed on nightly outbreaks of street violence that escalated on Wednesday with sectarian clashes, continued attacks on police and the setting alight of a hijacked bus.

Curfew continued to remain imposed in parts of Bandipora district in north Kashmir for the third day today following sectarian clashes three days ago in which four persons were injured.

A trivial issue of a four-wheeler bumping into a two-wheeler during a traffic jam led to sectarian tension at Bulandbagh under Wazirganj police station on Saturday night.

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With the situation returning to normal, authorities on Saturday lifted the three-day-old curfew imposed in nine police station areas of the city following sectarian clashes.

About 25 persons, including women and children, were injured in the clashes between two sects of a community in the Old City during the 21st Ramzan procession on Wednesday.

Normal life was on Thursday disrupted in the city as curfew continued in nine police station areas following sectarian clashes.

Curfew continued to remain imposed in a village in Bandipora district of north Kashmir for the seventh day today following last week's sectarian clashes in which four persons were injured.

Parts of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, remained under curfew for the sixth consecutive day today as a precautionary measure in view of sectarian tension.

Uttarakhand, which has had a secular tradition by and large, has increasingly been seeing sectarian and communal violence since some time

Bareilly remained tense on Tuesday following a clash between Barelvi and Deobandi sects over the appointment of a maulvi at a local mosque. Police used force to disperse the warring groups and restored peace. The local administration has convened a meeting of the two sects on Wednesday to find a solution to the dispute.

Tension prevailed in the Anant Nagar area on Friday after members of two sects clashed over appointment of Imam in a mosque.

Fresh clashes broke out between rival Shia and Sunni groups in northwest Pakistan as a truce brokered by tribal elders collapsed due to new attacks by Taliban fighters, with the toll reaching 47 in four days.

Clashes have been reported between groups of Shias and Sunnis in South Central Mumbai on Tuesday evening, police said.

Security has been beefed up and a heavy contingent of PAC and Rapid Action Force personnel deployed to prevent any kind of backlash in the Bajaria locality in the Colonelganj police station limits after Deoband and Barelvi sects clashed with each other here on Friday.

A young man in Pakistan's Punjab Province has been arrested for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook.

Police was deployed outside the cathedral in the central neighbourhood of Abbassiya, where two people were killed in clashes on Sunday.