Pakistan

Local officials said on Monday that a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying a local politician and his friends in southwestern Pakistan, killing him and six others. The attack occured in Kech, a town in Balochistan province, local police officer…

News sources reported that Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was sentenced to three years in prison. Pakistan’s deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to 3 years in prison and 5 years of disqualification from holding political…

A suicide bombing killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 on Sunday at a political gathering of conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) party in northwestern Pakistan, according to officials. Abdul Rasheed, the regional chief of the party, said the…

The President of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Pakistan, Sheikh Hamid ul Haq Haqqani, urged all Muslims to honor the memory of Ashura of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and maintain its peaceful atmosphere throughout the country. Haqqani…

A number of Shia leaders and clerics in the Parachinar region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan accused the Taliban movement in the country of fomenting conflict and fueling sectarianism in the region to create division between Shia and Sunni…

The Shia Ulema Council has announced in a statement that, as in previous years, there are programs to hold nationwide conventions on the occasion of Eid Ghadir and welcoming the month of Muharram. The statement notes that the Council’s missionaries…

Shia Rights Watch (SRW) released its monthly report detailing the most prominent human rights violations committed against Shia Muslims worldwide for June 2023. The report highlights several terrorist attacks by extremist groups against Shia Muslims and the oppression and persecution they…

The UK-based ‘Who is Hossein?’ charity has launched a humanitarian campaign in the predominantly Shia town of Parachinar in Pakistan to reduce suffering of families in wake of the inflation and recent flash floods that his through the country. In…

The Pakistani journalist, Faizan Redha, said, today Monday, that Shia Muslims are subjected to systematic oppression as other minorities in Pakistan, calling on the government to support its religious minorities. In an article published on “The Nation” newspaper and was…

Amnesty International has called on Pakistan’s government to urgently stop its campaigns of arbitrary detention and harassment launched against the Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, who left their country due to Taliban persecution. The organization said in a statement today,…