21.   While most of the violence had been restricted to the eastern Punjab province, Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province occasionally experiences the sectarian strife.

22.   Fears of a return to sectarian strife have swept the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga after five bomb attacks this week.

23.   The provincial tour illustrated the obstacles to a proposed peace agreement that would end a quarter century of sectarian strife in Mindanao island.

24.   Senator Manzoor Gichki said sectarian strife was aimed at transforming Pakistan into a fundamentalist state.

25.   The dissident groups refuse to accept a peace process aimed at ending sectarian strife in the province.