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- Wasim Rizvi has filed a plea in Supreme Court seeking the removal of 26 'aayats' (verses) from Quran
- He said that these verses are used by terrorists to promote jihad
- Rizvi’s petition is yet to be admitted but it has already created a storm across the Shia-Sunni divide with clerics hitting out at him
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