Pakistan

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…

Shia Rights Watch condemned the killing of 11 miners in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Pakistan, while it held the international community responsible for the genocidal war targeting Shia Muslims.The organization stated in a statement that it strongly condemns the…

Attackers in southwestern Pakistan have killed at least 11 workers at a remote coal mine, officials said Sunday.The victims were from the minority Shia Hazara community, Khalid Durrani, a government official, told French news agency AFP.ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility…

Pakistani authorities have arrested a terrorist who leads a terrorist group accused for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.A Pakistani counterterrorism official said that the terrorist also financed terrorism in the country.A spokesman for Punjab’s counterterrorism department said, “Zaki Rahman was arrested…

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…