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Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony said efforts are going to be made to establish an international Quran academy in the country.Highlighting the position of the Holy Quran in Pakistan, Noor-ul-Haq Qadri said the academy will be…

Protests denouncing the killing of several Shia Hazara workers have entered the seventh day and it is possible that they will continue until at least mid-January.Opposition parties, civil groups, and Shia religious groups are demanding action regarding the ISIS-claimed attack…

Those who wish to perform the Umrah pilgrimage are advised to take the Covid-19 vaccine shot, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Hajj and Umrah Muhammad Saleh Benten has said.Benten said that all the precautionary measures and preventive protocols are being followed…

Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them “very soon”, Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on…

The family of political prisoner Sheikh Zuhair Ashour has complained that they haven’t heard any news about him since July last year.Sheikh Zuhair Ashour faces an unknown fate as he was subjected to enforced disappearance.Ashour and others were placed in…

The Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced the arrest of three terrorists in Samarra, Salah al-Din province.The directorate stated in a statement, that “among its tasks is to pursue the remnants and sleeper cells of ISIS, and with accurate intelligence information…

A security leader in Anbar Province, Qatari Al-Obeidi, stated that three ISIS terrorists were killed in armed clashes in western Anbar.Al-Obeidi said in a statement, that a security force from the army clashed during the implementation of a security duty…

The Norwegian traveler, Jorn Bjorn, visited the holy shrines of Imam Hussain and his brother al-Abbas, peace be upon them, as part of his tour around the world.Bjorn toured the historical and religious monuments in and around the two holy…

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers in Iraq announced facilitations for visa requests to pilgrims visiting the holy shrines, in addition to regular, multiple and emergency entry visas.The Council said in a statement, received by the Shiawaves, “The…

Three Afghan policemen were killed in an armed attack targeting a checkpoint in Ghazni state, north of the country.A spokesman for the State Security Directorate, Ahmed Khan Siirt, told reporters that unknown assailants launched an attack on a police checkpoint,…