Tag: Sacrifice

UN honours 8 Pakistanis on Int’l Day of Peacekeepers

The United Nations Tuesday honoured the sacrifices of 112 peacekeepers including 8 Pakistanis. Addressing a solemn ceremony marking the annual International Day of UN Peacekeepers,...

Easter reminds us to promote tolerance, harmony: Dr Paul Bhatti

Minister-Incharge for National Harmony Dr Paul Bhatti has said that Easter preaches the message of tolerance, sacrifice, brotherhood, hope and freedom which is a...

Peace talks versus violence

The killing of 15 kidnapped Frontier Constabulary soldiers in the frontier region Tank last week by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is a great tragedy for those...

Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods in India

A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the...

Animal sacrifice

The dip in the practice of animal sacrifice this Eid was pretty obvious, and it was clearly because of the inflated prices of the...

Animal sacrifice big boost to dying leather industry

A fair number of Pakistanis who collectively slaughtered 5 million goats and 2 million cows on Eid ul Adha last year remained unable to...

Trend in animal sacrifice declining due to inflated prices

The trend of sacrificing animals on Eid-ul-Azha has been declining constantly due to swelling prices of sacrificial animals. Conservative estimates suggest that the country...

Eid likely on Nov 7

If there are no clouds, the new moon will be easily visible today (Friday, Ziqa’ad 29) evening and Eidul Adha could fall on Monday,...

‘PML-N ready for any sacrifice for judiciary’s supremacy’

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that his party was highly galvanised to give every sacrifice to uphold the supremacy...

Ramadan: An institute to nurture self-discipline and sacrifice

The holy month of Ramadan has commenced for the believers who can regulate their life in accordance with the tenets of the holy Quran...

Hindu priest arrested for demanding human sacrifice

A Hindu priest who had demanded the sacrifice of three minor daughters of a Hindu couple was arrested late on Thursday night by Mirpurkhas...

Elite will have to sacrifice: Shahbaz

Eyeing the country’s elite class in connection with the implementation of his no-aid-from-the US policy, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the wealthy...

Double ‘child sacrifice’ murders reported in central India

RAIPUR: Police in central India reported a second case of suspected child sacrifice on Thursday, casting a spotlight on witchcraft and occult beliefs that persist in some impoverished areas.
Police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said they had arrested 11 people including a "witchdoctor" and his wife after the body of a two-year-old boy was discovered in their house on Wednesday. Further searches of the property in the industrial town of Bhilai, about 45 kilometres (30