Mourning Hazaras end sit-in
QUETTA: Two senior aides of Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday succeeded in persuading the protesting Hazara Shia community members to end their four-day-long sit-in against the Hazarganji suicide bombing in which at…
PM Imran takes notice of action against ‘sectarian’ groups ahead of Saudi visit
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday took notice of orders issued by the Interior Ministry regarding the tracking and ‘sensitisation’ of a quintet of Shia organisations that are suspected of running a…
John Abraham’s upcoming film draws ire for hurting Shia sentiments
Bollywood actor John Abraham’s upcoming film Satyameva Jayate has landed itself in legal trouble. A complaint was recently filed in Hyderabad against the actor’s upcoming film for showing a sequence that allegedly…
One dead, two injured in alleged in alleged sectarian attack in Karachi
A student was shot dead and two others injured in an alleged sectarian attack in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area on Friday evening. Gulshan SP Fahad Ahmad while speaking to a news publication said,…
CDGL to ensure peace on Hazrat Imam Hussain’s Chehlum
District administration has chalked out a comprehensive plan to ensure peace and harmony during the processions of Chehlum of Imam Hussain in different parts of the city. Lahore DCO Captain (R) Muhammad…
Top Shia cleric, ASWJ’s leader arrested in Karachi
All Pakistan Shia Action Committee Chief Allama Yusuf Husain and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s (ASWJ) General Secretary Taj Hanafi were apprehended on Sunday in Karachi, officials said. Rangers arrested Hanafi, who was…
High on Arab Spring, West forgot that Syria was Shia-led
Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself as President Bashar al Assad’s architect. It…
Bahrain jails 57 Shias for prison mutiny
A court in Bahrain on Monday handed 15-year additional jail sentences to 57 inmates involved in a prison mutiny, a judicial source said. The inmates were convicted of rioting and mutiny following…
Bahrain sentences Shia to death, jails 22 from ‘terror group’
A Bahraini court Thursday sentenced a Shia citizen to death and jailed 22 others for life for forming a “terrorist group” that killed two people, including a police personnel. It is the…
Open sectarianism in Saudi Arabia frightens Shias
Saudi Shias have long complained of discrimination, but they are now subject to violent attack and, adding to their unease, fear that another 16 young men will be added to the list of seven facing beheading for joining protests in 2011-12
At least three dead in suicide attack at Saudi mosque
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others, Saudi-owned al Arabiya television reported. The…
More Shia blood spills amid ‘strict’ Muharram security
10 children among 20 persons reportedly killed as suicide bomber targets Muharram procession in Jacobabad
Katri Bawa Noha Khawans continue to mesmerise mourners on Ashura
Sitting near the Masti gate, the Mohalla is known for producing world-renowned Noha Khawans or elegy singers
MALIK ISHAQ IS DEAD!
Ishaq and his sons were arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department a week ago
IS group in Saudi urges more attacks against Shias
The Islamic State “has ordered its soldiers everywhere to kill the enemies of religion, especially the Rawafedh (Shias),” a spokesperson for the group is heard as saying in the audio message.
Iran’s role worries anti-IS coalition, says US general
The Shia militias, armed and advised by Iran, are playing a major role in the Tikrit offensive
Shia lawyer shot dead in Karachi
Syed Ali Hasnain Bukhari, a senior Shia lawyer, who was also a counsel for several Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and a member of party’s Legal Aid Committee, was shot dead in Karachi’s Korangi No 1 1/2 area on Wednesday.