11.   The current Knesset is plagued by splinter factions and special interest parties.

12.   The MQM is fighting with its splinter faction, the MQM Haqiqi.

13.   The other two, who belong to an IRA splinter faction, had stopped similar protests only days earlier.

14.   The PFLP spawned several other Marxist-oriented splinter factions.

15.   There, the MQM is locked in a bloody feud with its small splinter faction called the MQM Haqiqi group that has killed hundreds of militants on each side.

16.   Those arrested included members of splinter factions within Cuncolta, considered the political party of the militant Corsican National Liberation Front-Historic Wing, or FLNC.

17.   An MQM leader, Kanwar Khalid Yunus, said up to six supporters were abducted by the splinter faction in Sharifabad district.

18.   Elections in the autonomous region have often been marred by violence and it is feared that Moslem splinter factions may try to disrupt the peace agreement.

19.   Five of them were arrested in Surabaya after a clash between splinter factions of PDI, which led the local PDI chapter to halt its campaign in that city.

20.   The UDF is currently considering a more centralised party structure to replace its current loose grouping of splinter coalition factions.