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 …

The growing anti-Shia movement in Sunni-majority Indonesia is the result of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East. Islamic radicalism expert Noorhaidi Hasan of the State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta expressed confidence that the dynamics of Islam in Indonesia had always been linked to the various political situations …

Iranian President Hassan Rohani said Thursday that fair elections would be the best way of ending Syria’s civil war. “The best solution is to organize free and fair elections inside Syria,” Rohani told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “No outside party or power should decide for the Syrian …

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi in a message which was read in the 27th International Conference on Islamic Unity urged Islamic Scholars to be aware of the enemies’ plots. The grand Ayatollah in his message, beckoned the unremitting chaos in Syria and underscored the standing chaos is derived from the very fact …

QUETTA: Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslmeen and families of martyrs have announced to end the sit-in being staged in Quetta and to bury the remains of martyrs on Friday, following the assurances of action from Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan,  The Interior and Information Ministers flew in to Quetta and assuring the protesters …

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 …

[youtube youtubeurl=”vWAryWEjlU0″ ][/youtube] The Geneva II conference on the Syria crisis has revealed major differences of opinion between the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition from the very outset. The much-anticipated talks kicked off on Wednesday in the Swiss city of Montreux to discuss a transition plan ahead of direct …

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 …