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TOPSHOTS-PAKISTAN-RELIGION-SHIITE
TOPSHOTS
A Pakistani Shiite Muslim flays himself with knives attached to chains during a religious procession on the ninth day of the holy Islamic month of Muharram in Islamabad on December 27, 2009. Pakistan went on high alert, fearing sectarian clashes and militant attacks as millions of Shiites commemorated Ashura across the country, officials said. Ashura rituals, which end December 28 in Pakistan, see faithful in black march through the streets, flailing themselves with chains to commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI
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Islamabad, PAKISTAN |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Behrouz MEHRI |
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27 Decembrie 2009 |
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