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Two suicide bombings targeting mosques in Pakistan left over 57 people dead and around 70 injured during Friday prayers. One of the deadliest days in the country's recent history comes days after 81 Christians were killed in a church in northwest Pakistan.
Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwazi Umar Farooq led the Friday congregational prayers at Srinagar's historic Jamia Masjid.
Indian authorities released a key Muslim cleric after four years of house arrest and allowed him to lead Friday prayers in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir, according to mosque authorities. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been spearheading protests against Indian rule in the disputed region.
President Shavkat Mirziyoev won praise from devout Muslims for lifting draconian restrictions on the faith held over from predecessor Islam Karimov. But from a quieter call to prayer to calls to shun the niqab and a crackdown on Islamic websites, policy is now going back in the other direction.
Iranians are marking the anniversary of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman detained and beaten by "morality police".