Defence analyst and Pakistani general Talat Masud spoke to AFP a day after 88 people died in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Sufi shrine

At least 70 people are killed and hundreds wounded when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan officials say after a series of attacks which have shaken optimism over recent improvements in security

Al menos 70 personas murieron y mas de 150 estan heridas tras un ataque a un santuario sufi atestado de fieles en Pakistan el atentado fue reivindicado por el grupo yihadista Estado Islamico

Al menos 20 personas murieron el domingo en un ataque perpetrado por hombres armados con bastones y armas blancas contra un templo sufi en Pakistan

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Bands from across the world have been performing together in Cairo at the Samaa Fest
ival.
The aim this year is to promote the importance of...

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A new religious sect is causing controversy in Alg
eria.
The Karkariya Sufi order has provoked mistrust in some sectors but its...

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Sufi shrine in southwest Pakistan Thursday killing 18 people officials said in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's restive southwest Thursday killing 13 people and wounding at least 20 others officials said

A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a Sufi shrine in southwest Pakistan killing 18 people amid threats of more attacks in the terror striken nation officials said

Members of Kosovo's Sufi religious order, known locally as dervishes, on Thursday performed rituals to mark the start of spring and the birth of Ali - a revered figure in Islam.

The celebrations...

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The 430th Festival of Lights has taken place in La
hore.
Devotees come to the event, at the shrine of Sufi poet and saint Madho Lal...

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Hundreds of protesters from the Sudanese Sufi movement marched in the streets of the capital, Khartoum, on Monday playing drums and chanting revolutionary slogans on their way to the sit-in camp at the defence ministry.

For a decade, Rana Gorgani has been one of the few Sufi dancers to perform in public. This spiritual and ancestral dance is traditionally reserved for men - the whirling dervishes, even if women perform it in secret (Footage by AFPTV via...

A composer in Egypt is drawing on the country's musical heritage to promote a message of peace.

Entessar Abdel Fatah says his vision is to connect the world through spiritual compositi
ons....

Nurpur Shaha village on outskirts of Islamabad

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llage
2. Dome of shrine of sufi mystic Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, popularly known as
Bari Imam
3. Festival procession bearing...

The month of Ramadan is a time when Muslims fast from sunrise till sunset. Although Ramadan is observed throughout the Muslim world, Egyptians, like other nations, have evolved their own unique way of celebrating the...

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As the Islamic world celebrates the month of Ramadan, Muslims are hoping that the month of fasting will encourage others to take a more positive view of their reli
gion.
Much to their...

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Cairo, July
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rformance
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Mohamed,
Tanoura Dancer:
"The origin of this dance is Sufi. We got it from Turkey and we added Egyptian...

1. Wide aerial shot of Dir valley

2. Cutaway cameraman in helico
pter
3. Mid of helicopter
on ground
4. Various of Pakistan army soldiers standing at Lal Qila
entrance point
5. Various...

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2. Wide of people walking into the Grasi ground, where the rally will take place, chanting sl
ogans
3. Various of people at rally at the Gr
asi ground
4. Mid of stage
at the...

FILE: Mountains in Shangla Pass Area - February 2008

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tains
FILE: Pajia - Feb
ruary 2008
2. Pan from helicopter on ground to wide
of Swat Valley
3. Soldier...