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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 ...

Indian police are hunting a gang of men responsible for raping and killing two teenage girls and then hanging them from a tree. The attack reportedly took place on Tuesday night, in the village of Karta in the Uttar Pradesh region, UK newspaper The Mirror reported. The girls, who are from the ...

The Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria marked the annual Shuhada Day and martyrdom of Imam Musa Ibn Jafar (as) in Zaria on Saturday the 25th of Rajab 1435 (24/5/14) and was attended by hundreds of thousands of people from far and near.   The Leader of the Shiite islaimc Movement, ...

“Awakening of Nation and Stability of Pakistan Conference,” in Skardu brought Sunni and Shia Muslims together and they vowed united struggle for full rights of people of Gilgit-Baltistan. Majlis-e-Wahdat-e- Muslimeen hosted the largest- attended public meeting in the history of Gilgit-Baltistan. Sunni Bralevis, Deobandis and Ahl-e-Hadees also joined the Shia Muslims’ ...

Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have won India’s general election by the biggest margin in 30 years. Modi will be sworn in as the new prime minister of India on May 21. Indian stocks surged to a record in India, with the BSE having risen as ...

Gruesome photographs appearing to show a British serviceman in a celebratory pose next to a dead Afghan have prompted an investigation by the Ministry of Defence. In one photograph, a British soldier with a cigarette in his mouth is kneeling by the body of a dead Taliban fighter and giving ...

The mystery has deepened over the exact contents of the cargo on-board Flight MH370 when it disappeared eight weeks ago. It has now emerged the Malaysia Airlines plane was loaded with items which have not been made clear on the publicly-released manifest. It is known the aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes ...

The backlash over US Secretary of State John Kerry’s use of the word “apartheid” to describe what would become of Israel if there is no “two-state solution” continues. Leading anti-Palestinian group the Anti-Defamation League, for instance, welcomed Kerry’s craven apology:   “We welcome Secretary @JohnKerry’s clear affirmation that #Israel is not an #apartheid state” ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic: Heavily armed African and French peacekeepers escorted some of the last remaining Muslims out of Central African Republic’s volatile capital on Sunday, trucking more than 1,300 people who for months had been trapped in their neighborhood by violent Christian militants. Within minutes of the convoy’s departure, ...

Authorities in western China’s restive, Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are offering rewards to locals who inform on their neighbors for “wearing beards,” government-controlled media reported this week. Islamic liturgy recommends that Muslim men wear beards. In recent months, local officials have tightened religious restrictions on Xinjiang’s ethnic Uighurs, in ...