Pakistan

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, expressed its deep dissatisfaction with the killing of the Pakistani activist Karima Baloch, holding the Canadian authorities responsible for revealing the parties that committed this heinous crime.The organization said in a statement that the…

Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops have been killed by militants in an attack on a checkpoint in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the military said Sunday.The event took place late Saturday night in the town of Harnai, around 170 kilometers (105…

Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a bomb explosion near a football stadium in Bangor district on Saturday, a spokesman for the Pakistani government of Balochistan province announced.According to Xinhua, Liaquat Shahwani explained that the explosion…

Pakistan regulators on Friday decried internet giants Google and Wikipedia for “disseminating sacrilegious content.”The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) called for the immediate removal of “unlawful content” from Google. The regulators pointed to pages that name religious leader Mirza Masroor Ahmad…

The deputy head of the Shia Scholars Council in Pakistan, Allama Muhammad Ramadan Touqeer, strongly condemned the shooting of a journalist in front of his home in Dera Ismail Khan in the northwest of the country.According to press reports, Touqeer…

Pakistan asked the UAE to find a solution to the recent issue of suspending travel visas to citizens of a number of countries, including Pakistan.This came during a meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the UAE Minister…

Pakistani media announced that the leader of the so-called ‘Jaish al-Adl’ terrorist group, Omar Shahoozhi, known as Mulla Omar, was killed in Pakistan.It said that during a clash between Pakistani border forces with the leader of the so-called ‘Jaish al-Adl’…

More than 1,000 protesters have blocked a major highway in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, demanding the expulsion of the French ambassador and end of diplomatic ties with the European country over perceived Islamophobia.Protesters from the far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a…

Human rights activists expressed concern about the increase in accusations of blasphemy against Shias Muslims in Pakistan, as the country registered more than forty cases last August.It doesn’t stop here. Rather, everyone who deals with the Shias will face the…

Muslims in South Asia vented their fury at France on Friday and torched an effigy of President Emmanuel Macron over his recent remarks on Islam, with tens of thousands flooding the streets.Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle…