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On June 13, the small daily Yeni Mesaj reported an arson attack on the Shia Allahu Akbar Mosque, in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district. The reportedly unknown perpetuators struck after midnight, setting fire to the mosque’s library. Turkey’s mainstream media failed to pick up on the incident until July 8, after another Shia house of worship, the Muhammediye Mosque, was attacked in the ...

As many as 23 people were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber stormed a hotel in Taftan, where Shia pilgrims were staying, and blew himself up, late on Sunday. Talking to Daily Times, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said that around 300 Shia pilgrims had entered ...

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has announced to end their sit-in, that was initiated to protest against the target killings in Karachi, as the provincial government held successful talks with the organization’s leaders on Monday morning. On Thursday, MWM organized a rally against targeted killings in Karachi from Numaish Chowrangi. The participants of ...

QUETTA: The victims of the Mastung suicide attack were laid to rest in two graveyards of the city on Friday. 22 victims belonging to the Hazara Shia community were laid to rest at the Bahisht-e-Zainab graveyard while four were buried at the Hazara Town graveyard. Grief-stricken mourners of the Hazara ...

Iran has denounced the deadly terrorist attack in Balochistan Province in southwest Pakistan which left at least 22 Shia pilgrims dead. Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham on Wednesday said such terrorist attacks are plotted and carried out by the enemies of Muslim nations.  She stressed the importance of adopting ...

Majlis Wehdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM) has blocked key roads in many cities including Karachi this night with protest sit-ins to express solidarity with Quettas sit-in with bodies against Mastung Shia massacre.  In Quetta, all markets and business centres at Liaquat Bazaar, Prince Road, Jinnah Road, Shahra-e-Iqbal, Mission Road, Shawak Sha Road, Masjid ...

Despite freezing temperatures, over a hundred from the Shia community in the UK staged a sit-in demonstration over night outside the Pakistani Embassy in London to protest against the killing of Shia pilgrims in Balochistan’s Mastung district. The demonstrators started on Wednesday night, vowing to continue their protests until authorities ...

A bomb ripped through a bus full of Shi’ite pilgrims in western Pakistan and killed at least 22 people on Tuesday, police said, extending a spate of sectarian attacks that have shaken the South Asian nation. The bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims returning from neighbouring Iran to their home city of Quetta ...

On 2 January, after a car bomb exploded in the Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs killing five people, Maria Jawhari, an 18-year-old resident of the area, posted on her Facebook page: “This is the third bombing I escaped from, I don’t know if I’ll die in the fourth.” ...