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The official website of the Supreme Religious Authority Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi said on Saturday that the Afghanistan-based Shirazi centers and organizations continue to provide their humanitarian assistance to disadvantaged families. The website added that, “In Mazar-i-Sharif, the…

About 12,000 or two-thirds of Afghan journalists have quit their jobs during the last two years, announced Reporters Without Borders in a report ahead of the second-year anniversary of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. The organization states that more than…

Anwar Haq Kakar has been appointed as Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister; local media have reported. According to reports, Mr. Kakar was proposed to the President of Pakistan as the interim Prime Minister after the agreement between the Prime Minister Shahbaz…

Today an augmented reality exhibition titled “Winds of Change” has been launched at the Islamic Museum of Australia in Victoria, sponsored by the Andrews Labor Government. Victorian students will experience historical moments, including crewing a Torres Strait pearl boat and…

The Hazara genocide of 1998 in Mazar-e-Sharif stands as a haunting reminder of the brutality that can arise from ethnic and anti-Shia tensions. The tragic events of that year saw the targeted mass killings of Hazara civilians, leaving a scar…

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…

Following the Taliban’s restrictions on girls’ education, sources from a number of provinces now confirm that according to the Taliban’s new order, girls over the age of ten have been denied the right to education. Also, a number of female…

As restrictions and oppression of the Taliban group against the Shiites and ethnic groups in Afghanistan persists, the followers of the Ismaili religion in this country say they have not been spared either. Residents of Badakhshan in northeastern Afghanistan report…

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…