Jamaat voices concern on UP serial blasts

Acting Secretary-General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Syed Ghulam Akber has expressed his deep sense of grief and grave concern on the serial blasts near the courthouses of Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad and the death and destruction they caused.
In a state...

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