81.   In the past few weeks there also has been an upsurge of sectarian violence elsewhere in Pakistan as well.

82.   In recent months, sectarian violence in Pakistan has pitted majority Sunni Muslims against their minority Shiite Muslim brethren.

83.   It is an attempt by the provincial government to quell the relentless sectarian violence that has plagued the region in recent months.

84.   It has been relatively successful with only the occasional outbreak of sectarian violence.

85.   It has been relatively successful, with only the occasional outbreak of sectarian violence.

86.   Lawyers defending a Syrian novelist and an economist charged with inciting sectarian violence told a court Monday their clients had been mistreated during interrogation.

87.   Mamoun Homsi was arrested earlier this year and charged with slander, inciting sectarian violence and illegally trying to change the constitution.

88.   Many shouted slogans calling on the government to provide better protection against the sectarian violence wracking the province.

89.   Meanwhile, a fresh burst of sectarian violence claimed seven lives overnight.

90.   Masked gunmen shot and killed a militant Shiite Muslim leader Saturday amid a wave of sectarian violence in eastern Pakistan.