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Khatme Nabuwat Andolan activists, carrying sticks, bring out a procession towards a mosque of the Ahmadiyyas at Naddapara of Uttara in Dhaka on Friday demanding that the government should declare the Ahmadiyyas non-Muslims.
— New Age photo
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Declare Ahmadiyyas
non-Muslim or ZIA
will be taken over,
warn bigots
Anti-Ahmadiyya bigots on Friday called for dawn-to-dusk hartal (general strike) on Sunday and Monday in areas under five Dhaka Metropolitan Police stations after their bid to capture a mosque of the minority Muslim sect fizzled out in the presence of a huge contingent of law enforcers...[ + ]
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Tengratila victims take
to streets to make
Niko pay for blowouts
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