Pakistan

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,…

The government of Pakistan has signed an agreement with Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan; the same group which had previously been declared by the state as an extremist terrorist group in 2021. According to this agreement, the government of Pakistan will establish…

The New Zealand news website “Stuff” has published a new report on the life of a Shia Hazara family who fled Pakistan due to increasing violence and killings that forced thousands of Shia Hazara Muslims to flee their country in…

A number of scholars and families of missing Shiites in Pakistan expressed their concern about the increase in violence against the Shiite community in Pakistan by holding a protest rally in the city of Karachi. The protesters demanded that the…