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124 killed in Pakistan amid continued sectarian violence despite ceasefire

The death toll in Khurram tribal sectarian violence rose to 124 with two more deaths on Saturday as a gunbattle continued between Shia and Sunni groups despite a ceasefire in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. More than 170 people have been injured in the sectarian violence raging for the last ten days, authorities said. The province's governor, Faisal Karim Kundi …

US mission in Pakistan issues security alert, advises Americans to avoid Peshawar hotel

Hindustan Times

The US mission to Pakistan has issued a security alert, urging American citizens to avoid the Serena Hotel in Peshawar and its surrounding area, including the Peshawar Golf Club, until December 16. It also warned US nationals to reconsider travel plans to the region, emphasising the ongoing “Do Not Travel” advisory for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province due to persistent terrorism threats. …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Pakistan: Shia–Sunni clash in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leaves 10 dead, a week after 150 killed

India TV News

Peshawar: At least 10 more people have been killed and 21 others injured as sporadic clashes continued between Sunni and Shia tribes despite a cease-fire brokered between the two warring communities in Pakistan's restive northwest, police said on Wednesday. At least 10 people died and 21 others injured in the sporadic tribal sectarian violence, police said. The clashes between Alizai …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

82 killed in 3 days in Pakistan’s Kurram: How Sunni vs Shia clashes have left a bloody trail

Firstpost

Last week, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, sectarian violence broke out in Pakistan’s Kurram district, resulting in the deaths of 82 people. People mourn over the graves of relatives who were killed after gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in the Kurram tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Shalozan, Pakistan. Rehan Muhammad, a 33-year-old journalist told The Guardian, “Gunfire …

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1 month ago

Over 300 families flee, 150 people killed as Pakistan witness sudden rise in Shia-Sunni clashes

Firstpost

More than 300 families were forced to leave their homes as violent clashes between Shia and Sunni Muslims rattled Pakistan’s north. The Sectarian violence in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan has killed about 150 over the past months Over 300 families were forced to flee their homes after violent clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims rattled North Pakistan. …

Pakistan Clashes Shia Sunni Shia Muslims Kurram

1 month ago

Dozens killed as sectarian violence flares up in Pakistan’s Kurram

Al Jazeera

Renewed fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups latest in a string of attacks to hit parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The violence overnight on Saturday was the latest to rock Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, just days after a deadly attack on a convoy in the same area killed dozens of people. Speaking to AFP news agency …

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1 month ago

At least 42 killed in sectarian violence in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Al Jazeera

Gunmen open fire on buses carrying Shia pilgrims in Kurram, where clashes with Sunnis have escalated in recent months. Gunmen have opened fire on convoys of Shia pilgrims in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 42 people, according to authorities in the restive province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “We also managed to recover 26 people belonging to the Shia community last night, …

Pakistan Attacks Shia Sunni Shia Pilgrims Kurram Parachinar

Pakistan: 50, including women and children, killed after gunmen attack passenger vehicles in Kurram

India TV News

Pakistan attack UPDATES: Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 50 people and wounding 29, the chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said. Among the fatalities in the attack, which occurred in the Kurram tribal district, were a woman and a child, Chaudhry said, adding: …

Pakistan Vehicles Attack Passenger Shia Sunni Passenger Vehicles

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Deadly Clash Between Two Tribes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Op India

At least 11 people have been killed and eight more have sustained injuries in a clash between two tribes in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The violence broke out after two people were critically injured in a shooting incident between rival tribes in the northwestern part of the country. Efforts to mediate a peace agreement between the tribes are ongoing.

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Protests in Kashmir Valley over Parachinar violence

Deccan Chronicle

Slogan-chanting crowds of Shia Muslims took to the streets at several places across Srinagar, Budgam and Baramulla districts of the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday evening to protest against the sectarian violence and looting incidents in Parachinar, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.This correspondent saw about sixty men and another twenty women marching along a road in Srinagar's …

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7 months ago

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, dies in helicopter crash aged 63

Al Jazeera

Iranian president was travelling by helicopter in the country’s East Azerbaijan province when it came down in a forested area. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has died after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in a mountainous and forested area of the country in poor weather. A former chief justice, Raisi was touted as a potential successor to Ayatollah …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunman kills at least six in attack on mosque in Afghanistan’s Herat

Al Jazeera

The ISIL armed group claimed responsibility for the attack in the Guzara district in Herat province. Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said “an unknown armed person shot at civilian worshippers in a mosque” at about 9pm on Monday in Andisheh town of Guzara district in Herat province. A United Nations Security Council report released in January said …

Afghanistan Attack Taliban Shia Herat Isil Kabul

11 months ago

Eye on the Middle East | Why did Iran open a fresh front with Pakistan?

Hindustan Times

On January 17, drones and missiles launched by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck two camps of the Sunni Baloch militant group, Jaish al-Adl, deep in Pakistani territory. While the strikes were unprecedented in scale — on Thursday, Pakistan retaliated with strikes in Iranian territory against camps of the Baloch Liberation Front and Baloch Liberation Army; it also swiftly withdrew …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Shia LeBeouf converts to Catholicism after being confirmed at New Year’s Eve Mass

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Suicide blast near mosque in Pakistan’s Balochistan kills at least 52

The Hindu

A powerful suicide blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 54 people and injuring over 100 others who were preparing to celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, police said. Hours later, another blast at a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu city killed at least four people and injured 12 others. Balochistan Inspector General Abdul …

Pakistan Suicide Blast Attack Taliban Hospital Sheikh

1 year, 3 months ago

J&K: Former Separatist Joins Mainstream Politics; Appointed Vice President of Apni Party

News 18

Former separatist Syed Muzaffar Rizvi, who was the General Secretary of Itihadul Muslimeen– a Shia separatist outfit part of the Hurriyat Conference amalgam– had embraced mainstream politics in Jammu and Kashmir. He further wrote, “We are committed to save the credibility of the party and the principles of our Late founder in particular… Any person holding any position will be …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Pakistan: Radical Islamist Group Attacks Shia Procession with Pistols, Stones in Sialkot; 13 Injured

News 18

Activists of a radical Islamist group attacked a Shia procession in Pakistan’s Punjab province, leaving at least 13 people injured, police said on Sunday. According to an FIR, the Shia procession was going to Imambargah in Sialkot, about 130 kms from Lahore, in connection with the Chehlum of Imam Hussain on Saturday when a group of people armed with pistols, …

Pakistan Fir Injured Shia Procession Tlp Sialkot

2 years, 3 months ago

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shia cleric Sadr announces resignation, at least 3 dead

The Hindu

An influential Shia cleric announced on August 29 he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking violent clashes with security forces in which at least three protesters were killed. It called on the cleric’s supporters to withdraw immediately from the heavily fortified government zone and to practice self-restraint “to …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Turkey’s military operation causes controversy, division in Iraq

Al Jazeera

A Turkish military operation was launched against PKK fighters in northern Iraq last week, but Baghdad is not happy. “The fact that President Erdogan mentioned this operation happened successfully in cooperation with the Iraqi government, despite the Iraqi foreign ministry condemning the operation and summoning the Turkish ambassador, shows to you the dysfunction of Iraqi foreign policy,” said Hamzeh Hadad, …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Twin blasts kill at least nine in northern Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

The victims of the attack were travelling home to break their dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. The victims of the attack were travelling home to break their dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast, said Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief. “The enemies of Afghanistan are creating tension and division among our people.” The ISIL group later claimed responsibility for the attack …

Afghanistan Taliban Shia Isil Mazar Mosque Attack

2 years, 9 months ago

Opinion: UNHRC Must Note The Misery of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan

News 18

Leaders of Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party and Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation were released unconditionally from Rawalakot prison in Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir on March 9. Lack of clean drinking water, deteriorating health facilities available in district headquarter hospitals and unscheduled load shedding for long hours have forced the people of PoGB to hold protests on a daily basis in …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Islamic State claims responsibility for Shia mosque attack in Pakistan

The Hindu

Pakistan's Interior Minister on Saturday vowed to arrest the masterminds behind a deadly suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group on a crowded Shia mosque during Friday prayers here that killed at least 62 people and injured nearly 200 others. The death toll on Saturday rose to 62 after five more people injured in the explosion succumbed to …

Islamic State Attack Injured Shia Islamic Mosque Peshawar

3 years, 1 month ago

15 injured in blast at mosque in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province: Reports

India Today

Fifteen people were injured after a blast occurred at a mosque in Traili town in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Friday afternoon, as per reports. A Taliban official told AFP news agency, "I can confirm a blast during Friday prayers inside a mosque in Spin Ghar district." According to AFP, a doctor at the local hospital said at least three …

Afghanistan Blast Shia Mosque

3 years, 2 months ago

Afghanistan: Islamic State group claims responsibility of mosque attack in Kandahar

India TV News

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the deadly mosque attack in southern Afghanistan that killed dozens of people in a Shia mosque. Suicide bombers attacked a Shia mosque packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers in Kandahar province which killed at least 47 people and injured 70 others, Turkish public broadcaster TRT reported. The United Nations Security Council strongly …

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124 killed in Pakistan amid continued sectarian violence despite ceasefire

US mission in Pakistan issues security alert, advises Americans to avoid Peshawar hotel

Pakistan: Shia–Sunni clash in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leaves 10 dead, a week after 150 killed

82 killed in 3 days in Pakistan’s Kurram: How Sunni vs Shia clashes have left a bloody trail

Over 300 families flee, 150 people killed as Pakistan witness sudden rise in Shia-Sunni clashes

Dozens killed as sectarian violence flares up in Pakistan’s Kurram

At least 42 killed in sectarian violence in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pakistan: 50, including women and children, killed after gunmen attack passenger vehicles in Kurram

Deadly Clash Between Two Tribes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Protests in Kashmir Valley over Parachinar violence

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, dies in helicopter crash aged 63

Gunman kills at least six in attack on mosque in Afghanistan’s Herat

Eye on the Middle East | Why did Iran open a fresh front with Pakistan?

Shia LeBeouf converts to Catholicism after being confirmed at New Year’s Eve Mass

Suicide blast near mosque in Pakistan’s Balochistan kills at least 52

J&K: Former Separatist Joins Mainstream Politics; Appointed Vice President of Apni Party

Pakistan: Radical Islamist Group Attacks Shia Procession with Pistols, Stones in Sialkot; 13 Injured

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shia cleric Sadr announces resignation, at least 3 dead

Turkey’s military operation causes controversy, division in Iraq

Twin blasts kill at least nine in northern Afghanistan

Opinion: UNHRC Must Note The Misery of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan

Islamic State claims responsibility for Shia mosque attack in Pakistan

15 injured in blast at mosque in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province: Reports

Afghanistan: Islamic State group claims responsibility of mosque attack in Kandahar