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Also, these two parties, namely Jamat-e-Islami and the Islami Oikya Jote, which won only 17 and three parliamentary seats respectively in the last general election, are no match for the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which has 220 seats to its credit.
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Then, the Bangla Bhai-led Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), a breakaway faction of the Jamat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), set off 50 simultaneous bomb blasts in each of the outlying districts in 2005, assassinated judges and threatened to impose Shariah law.
Bangladesh's War on Terror Ashok K. Mehta 2011
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About 200 activists of Jamat Ahle Sunnat, a moderate Muslim sect, staged a mock funeral procession for the Taliban, burning one in effigy as they chanted “Down with the Taliban; Taliban, the enemy of Islam; death for the killers of Sarfraz Naeemi.”
Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Rallying Against The Taliban 2009
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Initial signs in the right direction have already appeared in revolutionary Egypt where ideologues of Jamat al-Islamiyya, who took up arms against the Mubarak regime in the 1980s and the 1990s, now search for a form of Islamic liberalism that is inclusive of other political forces in society.
Alon Ben-Meir: Arab Spring and Revival of Islamic State Alon Ben-Meir 2011
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Pakistani activists of Shabab-e-Milli, a youth wing of hardline Islamic party Jamat-e-Islami, shout slogans against British Prime Minister David Cameron during a demonstration in Karachi.
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NEW DELHI -- US Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher, after meeting the Indian defense minister Shiv Shankar Menon, spoke to the media, saying that Pakistan has done well so far in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, banning the Jamat-u-Dawa and apprehending the people related to banned groups.
GroundReport: US Praises Pakistan Cooperation In Mumbai Attacks Probe 2009
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By Imran Schah NEW DELHI -- US Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher, after meeting the Indian defense minister Shiv Shankar Menon, spoke to the media, saying that Pakistan has done well so far in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, banning the Jamat-u-Dawa and apprehending the people related to banned groups.
GroundReport: US Praises Pakistan Cooperation In Mumbai Attacks Probe 2009
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NEW DELHI — US Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher, after meeting the Indian defense minister Shiv Shankar Menon, spoke to the media, saying that Pakistan has done well so far in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, banning the Jamat-u-Dawa and apprehending the people related to banned groups.
US Praises Pakistan Cooperation in Mumbai Attacks Probe 2009
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A religious political party “Jamat-e-Islami” took out a rally against the drone attacks in the city of Peshawar today.
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‘Eighty six politicians, bureaucrats and others summoned by Taliban militant leader of Swat does not include any member of Jamat I Islami of Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Jamiat ul Ulema of Maulana Fazal ur Rehman,’ unveiled in a news report.
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