Tag: Religious
Religious parties secure over 4.6 million votes in July 25 election
ISLAMABAD: As the results of July 25 polls were released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), it was revealed that 4,674,545 votes were...
Religious seminary teacher shoots herself after killing girl student: report
KARACHI: An alima (religious tutor) allegedly killed herself on Monday after murdering a girl student over the "refusal of marriage proposal of her brother"...
Strategic, brotherly relations between Pakistan, Qatar to be promoted: Daniyal Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister Daniyal Aziz has said that Qatar and Pakistan share strategic, religious, traditional and brotherly relations which would be cemented even more in the...
Saudi execution exposes dangerous political and religious divisions
Saudi Arabia's execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has exposed the dangerous political, religious and socio-economic fault lines which run through the kingdom...
Saudi media accuses religious police of using porn to lure cybercrime...
A Saudi newspaper has accused the Kingdom’s religious police, the Committee for Protection of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, of using obscene images to...
France takes battle against religious extremism into schools
France announced new measures on Thursday aimed at helping schools combat religious extremism, racism and anti-Semitism in reaction to deadly attacks two weeks ago.
The...
Religious minorities feel left out of social, cultural mainstream: survey
Survey respondents complain about lack of effective protection accorded by the state against violence, intimidation and intolerance
The religious minorities of Pakistan believe that they...
Majority is authority
Religious scholars call for resolving internal conflicts through majority opinion
Prominent religious scholars of the country have called for resolving national-level disputes and conflicts, which...
Religious scholars adopt Charter of Peace
Representatives of different religions support coexistence, peace for every one
Representatives of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhs and Baha’is on Wednesday adopted Charter of Peace during...
US tells Pakistan to secure religious minorities
Condemning a series of terror attacks this week targeting Shia Muslims, a US Congress-established body on religious freedom on Friday asked the Obama administration...
‘Merry Christmas’
A delegation of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), minority wing, led by JI Karachi Ameer Muhammad Hussain Mahenti visited different churches and presented flower bouquet to Christian...
Ministry of Religious Affairs to compensate Hujjaj
Ministry of Religious Affairs will provide compensation to the Hujjaj against losses such as death, road accident and emergency evacuation due to illness.
The compensation...
Pak-Iran ties rooted in historical, religious commonalities: PM
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said that Pakistan and Iran enjoyed close and brotherly relations which were rooted in historical, cultural and religious commonalities.
He...
Khosa lauds Altaf’s efforts for religious harmony
Governor Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa has said that Pakistan is facing multiple challenges and lauded Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain's efforts to...
The country’s booming sex industry
Early military governments and religious groups sought to reform areas like the famous “Taxali Gate” district of Lahore by displacing prostitutes and their families...
Bio data on govt servants affiliated with religious outfits ordered
Punjab Home Department issued directives to the police special branch, security branch and respective police stations to compile particulars of persons affiliated with religious...
6 religious parties announce electoral alliance
The representatives of six religious parties on Tuesday unanimously decided in favour of an electoral alliance in order to achieve the objectives of Pakistan’s...
