1.   It is also proposed to hold a brief peace ceremony at Portadown, in protest against bombings and sectarian murders in the province.

2.   AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant, it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad.

3.   His remarks came after the sectarian murders of four Catholics in the past nine days.

4.   And despite the loyalist cease-fire, there have been almost a dozen sectarian murders in the last year, Catholics killed by Protestants with links to loyalist groups.

5.   They too will probably continue their intermittent sectarian murders of the innocent.

6.   Meanwhile, police said three pro-British Protestant militants would be charged Wednesday in connection with recent sectarian murders.

7.   A militant of a radical Sunni Muslim outfit allegedly involved in dozens of sectarian murders was killed in a gunbattle with police, police said Monday.

8.   The road, which has been the scene of many sectarian murders for the past quarter century, had been closed off with high metal barricades.

9.   Unidentified gunmen Tuesday shot and killed a Shia homeopathic practitioner here in the second sectarian murder in two days in the Punjab province capital, police said.

10.   Pakistani police in central Punjab province said Tuesday they had arrested seven members of outlawed extremist groups accused of sectarian murders.