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UN officials confirmed on Thursday that more than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan last weekend were women and children. According to Taliban officials, Saturday’s earthquake killed more than 2,000 people of all ages and genders…

Pakistani media news agencies documented new study which confirms that with the elections drawing near, Pakistan is witnessing an escalation of sectarian violence, primarily targeting religious minorities including Shia Muslims. The recent study conducted by Dr. Zakaria Kareem revealed that…

Taliban officials have put the death toll from the two back-to-back 6.3 magnitude earthquakes that hit Western Afghanistan on Saturday between 2,000 and 2,400, warning that many are still unaccounted for in the remote quake region. While the world rushed…

Indian rescue teams are finding it difficult to reach flood-hit areas in the north-eastern state of Sikkim where more than 140 people are missing as the region is still experiencing bouts of heavy rain, Reuters reported on Saturday, October 7.…

Since conflict erupted in Sudan in April, Islamic Relief has delivered aid to more than 225,000 people, including the displaced and those in desperate need. The UK-based Islamic charity has provided cash support to victims so that displaced families can…

Recently, a Uyghur folklorist and ethnographer, Rahile Dawut, missing since 2017, was revealed to be serving a life prison for “separatism,”. Another Uyghur scholar, economist Ilham Tohti, who had vanished into Chinese custody years earlier was found to be experiencing…

The office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif province distributed today, Monday, the monthly financial aids to thousands of families in the city. The office said in a statement followed by Shia…

World Mental Health Day is an international day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health in order to bring more…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Hosseini al-Shirazi was held on Sunday, the 22nd of Rabi al-Awwal. In this session, like the previous meetings, the Supreme Marja answered the questions of the attendees about various jurisprudence issues.…

Hundreds of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, and dozens of Palestinian forces infiltrated Israeli settlements, news media have confirmed. The Israeli army, on Saturday morning, issued a statement and declared…