Tag: Shia

Shutter down strike in Quetta

Life came to a standstill as wheel-jam and shutter down strike was observed in Quetta city on Sunday on the call given by the...

Shia lawyer, son gunned down in Karachi

Former president of the Malir Bar, Salahuddin Haider Jafri and his son Ali Raza were killed in an ambush on Saturday. According to police,...

Armageddon

Madness comes without giving notice Anyone who imagines that Israel can attack Iran and not unleash another world war must be mad. Pray pause and...

Imamia students launch protest against Shia deaths

Imamia Student Organisation staged a protest demonstration in front of Lahore Press Club on Wednesday to mourn the death of 18 Shias in Kohistan...

On the trilateral summit

Three’s not a crowd The trilateral summit between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran has helped in bringing the three Islamic neighbours and stakeholders in the region...

CID arrests three for ‘killing Shia lawyers’

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday arrested three alleged target killers of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) involved in the murder of three...

Shias mourn; lawyers strike

Amid a peaceful strike observed in several Shia-dominated area of the city, the lawyers’ fraternity boycotted court proceedings throughout Sindh on Thursday. Different bar associations...

SHC takes suo moto notice of lawyers’ killing

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday took a suo moto notice of three lawyers’ murder in Karachi on Wednesday, summoning police and Ranger...

3 Shia lawyers gunned down

A day after two activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) – a reorganised version of the banned militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan –...

18 killed in blast at Khanpur Shia procession

A homemade bomb exploded on Sunday near a Shia procession marking the chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) in Khanpur, killing 18 people and...

Haggard citizens bear with law enforcers’ Chehlum precautions

The road where you would usually see hustle and bustle every day was completely deserted on Sunday. I could see only some indolent policemen...

25 dead as Shia rebels, tribesmen clash in Yemen

Twenty-five gunmen have been killed in three days of fighting between tribesmen and Shiite rebels in Yemen’s troubled north, an official said on Sunday. The...

Majalis held, Zuljinah, Alam and Tazia processions taken out

The chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS) and his diehard companions was observed in the federal capital on Saturday with religious spirit and devotion. The...

Twenty killed in Sunni, Shia clashes in Yemen

Twenty gunmen were killed Thursday in clashes between Zaidi Shia rebels and Sunni Salafist gunmen in northern Yemen, a security official said. Clashes erupted...

Iraqi Shia militia offshoot backed by Iran: Sadr

Fiery Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sharply criticised an offshoot of his movement on Sunday, accusing them of killing Iraqi soldiers and policemen and being...

Unity in difference

I am writing this letter to bring to your attention the issue of increasing intolerance in Pakistan. Pakistan has a lot of diversity in...

Suicide attack on Afghan Shia shrine kills up to 20

A suicide bomber attacked a Shia Muslim shrine in central Kabul on Tuesday where a crowd of hundreds had gathered for the festival of...