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Shia Ulema Council

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “shia political party in pakistan”. Today it says “shia muslim religio-political organization in pakistan and a board of shia muslim affiliated with the islamic c”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Shiite Muslim religio-political organization in Pakistan”. It now reads “Pakistani shiite-political organisation”.
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Shia Ulema Council (S.U.C) ( ; English : Council of Shiite Muslim clergy) is a Shiite Muslim religio-political organization in Pakistan and a board of Shiite Muslim clergy affiliated with the Islamic council of Iran . Its goal was to introduce Twelver Shiite Islam as personal law for the Shiite Muslims of Pakistan, so that no other school of thought may be forcefully imposed on them to follow.1 It is also known as Islami Tehreek or Tehrik-e-Jafaria in Pakistan . Ilyas Khan (2 March 2012, last updated at 16:55 ET).2

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “shia political party in pakistan”. Today it says “shia muslim religio-political organization in pakistan and a board of shia muslim affiliated with the islamic c”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Shiite Muslim religio-political organization in Pakistan”. It now reads “Pakistani shiite-political organisation”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

shia political party in pakistan

Now

shia muslim religio-political organization in pakistan and a board of shia muslim affiliated with the islamic c

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