11.   Pervez Musharraf ordered the two militant groups outlawed and threatened to ban others if they propagated hate and violence against rival Islamic sects.

12.   Police officials have introduced new anti-terrorist laws which have failed to stop the relentless bloodletting by militants belonging to the Islamic sects.

13.   Police officials have introduced new anti-terrorist laws, which have failed to stop the relentless bloodletting by militants belonging to the two Islamic sects.

14.   A man was killed when Muslim villagers in southern Russia clashed with members of a fundamentalist Islamic sect, accusing them of intolerance, a news agency reported Tuesday.

15.   A local police administrator, Ma Shiqiang, on Tuesday accused an illegal Islamic sect of inciting the violence and said police patrols had been doubled.

16.   A surge of militancy among Christians does not bode well for Pakistan, already battered by bitter sectarian fighting among rival Islamic sects.

17.   A smaller Islamic sect known as Ismaili Muslims and a small Shiite sect led by Karim Khalili also joined the military alliance.

18.   Also absent were representatives of the Shiite Muslims, a minority Islamic sect but the majority in Iran.

19.   Another source said some of the arrested appeared to be members of a militant Islamic sect.

20.   Ashkirkulov said that some Islamic leaders in Kyrgyzstan were propagating Wahhabism, the creed of a fundamentalist Islamic sect with its origins in Saudi Arabia.