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Pak may ban sectarian outfits: Minister

The government is giving final touches to a draft law, which proposes to prohibit clerics of extremist religious groups from making fiery speeches, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider told reporters in Islamabad.

The proposed law also specifies exemplary punishment for the printer and publisher of objectionable speeches, he said.

Sectarian riots erupted on Friday in different parts of Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi as hundreds of angry supporters of the Sunni Tehrik party took to streets to protest the murder of their leader Maulana Salim Qadri and five of his associates allegedly by rival militia.

Angry mobs also torched several vehicles on Saturday despite tight security ahead of the funeral of the slain Sunni Muslim leader and his supporters.

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