Radical Group’s Backers Defy Ban on Gatherings
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
About 3,000 supporters of the outlawed Sunni Muslim militant group Sipah-e-Sahaba protested in the central Pakistani city of Multan in defiance of a nationwide ban on public gatherings imposed after two attacks killed 71 people.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for an attack Thursday in Multan that killed 40 people. Less than a week earlier, a suicide bomber killed 31 people at a Shiite mosque in Sialkot.
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