Tag: Shia

Shia Killings: Pakistan should take urgent steps, says HRW

Pakistani government should urgently steps to protect the minority Shia Muslim community in Pakistan from sectarian attacks by militant groups, Human Rights Watch said...

Imran asks CJP to take suo-moto of Shia killings

PTI leader Imran Khan has asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice of the Shia killings in Baluchistan and Gilgit/Baltistan. While addressing...

Gunmen kill seven shiites in Quetta: Police

Gunmen shot dead seven shiite muslims in two separate incidents in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan on Saturday, police said. The incidents took place...

Shia LaBeouf: I took acid for film role

Controversial actor Shia LaBeouf has confessed to taking acid to prepare for a film role. Now the actor, 26, has revealed he went to...

Altaf stands by his statement on Jinnah’s Shia faith

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday defended his statement in which he said that Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah belonged to Shia...

Quaid-e-Azam was not Shia leader: Farid Piracha

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the undisputed leader of the Pakistani nation and he never presented himself as a Shia leader, Jamaat-e-Islami Deputy Secretary...

Gilgit-Baltistan shuts down against Babusar Shia massacre

A complete strike was observed in Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday over the massacre of Shia passengers near Babusar Top. The strike was called by...

Dastardly

How is this not our war? To attack people for their religious beliefs in thoroughly indefensible; to target those who have no means to defend...

The menace of sectarianism

Four buses were ambushed while going from Rawalpindi to Gilgit Baltistan; passengers were asked to pull out their CNICs and 25 Shias were killed...

Hazara Shia among two gunned down

Unidentified gunmen shot down three government officials, including a senior officer belonging to the Hazara Shia community, in an ambush on Wednesday. The extremist...

Iraq attacks kill 37 ahead of Shia rituals

A truck bomb blamed on al Qaeda killed 26 people at a crowded market in central Iraq on Tuesday while attacks elsewhere claimed 11...

Quetta observes shutter-down strike against carnage

On appeal from Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), the city observed shutter-down strike against the formidable attack on a bus leaving 13 passengers dead on...

76 Shia asylum seekers escape boat accident, 49 still missing

At least 76 Pakistani Shia asylum seekers who went missing after an ill-fated boat accident off the Australian coast a week ago, have established...

Kabul accuses Pakistan of Shia attack

Afghan authorities on Tuesday said “regional spy agencies” were behind a rare suicide attack targeting Shia Muslims that killed more than 80 people, in...

Iraq attacks kill 61during Shia pilgrimage

A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shia religious commemoration Wednesday, killing at least 61 people and wounding...

HR body seeks in-camera briefing on Shia killings

Directing the Interior Ministry, Intelligence Bureau (IB) DG and ISI chief to separately brief it in-camera over the issue of Shias’ targeted killings, the...

Hazara Shia among four killed across Balochistan

Four people, including a shopkeeper belonging to the Hazara community, were killed and three others wounded in firing incidents in Quetta and Khuzdar on...