61.   The Punjab provincial government has tried to stop the relentless bloodletting between militant members of the two Islamic sects, but so far it has been unsuccessful.

62.   The rest, like the ruling Al-Khalifa family, belong to the Islamic mainstream Sunni sect.

63.   The Taliban are predominantly Sunni Muslim, which is the majority Islamic sect in the country.

64.   The villagers are believed to be Wahhabis, a fundamentalist Islamic sect that Russian officials have blamed for recent violence in several parts of the former Soviet Union.

65.   Unlike other, larger ethnic groups, the Farsi-speaking Hazaras are mainly Shiite Muslims, a minority Islamic sect and the traditional rivals of the Sunnis.

66.   Violence is confined among small, but heavily armed groups of the two Islamic sects.

67.   Wracked by bitter feuding between rival Islamic sects, Pakistan on Friday shut its border with neighboring Afghanistan to try to stop the inflow of militant Muslims.

68.   Malaysia said Monday four former followers of a banned Islamic sect, Al-Arqam, had been imprisoned for trying to revive the movement.

69.   Religious elements in his Motherland Party, including several deputies who are members of Islamic sects, are clamouring for an alliance with the Refah.

70.   The Malaysian government Friday officially outlawed the messianic Islamic sect Al-Arqam as police stepped up a crackdown detaining scores of followers and sympathisers.