A businessman in the Pakistani capital has built a mosque that is calling on its followers to stop discriminating along Shia-Sunni sectarian lines and start praying together, in whichever way they like, under the same roof. The Darul Iman Jamia Masjid Qurtuba mosque has been built in the foothills of the Margalla range, the Dawn reported. Zahid Iqbal, a local businessman, conceptualised the ...
Hindu girl rescued in Pakistan four kidnappers killed
A three-and-a-half-year-old Hindu girl was rescued and her four kidnappers were killed by police in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, a media report said Friday. The girl named Mahee was abducted July 13 by the family's servant Rano from the doctors' mess in Walika Hospital where her father, identified as Sunil Dutt, and mother worked, police told Dawn. The family received a ransom call for ...
Polio virus from Pakistan detected in Israel
A polio virus prevalent in Pakistan has been detected in Israel, and the WHO says it does not know how the virus travelled all the way there. "The virus genotype (or genetic make-up) is the same as prevalent in Pakistan and this is what the research has indicated. We don't have details how the virus travelled all the way to Israel," Nima Abid, a representative of the World Health Organisation ...
Protests rock Kashmir over Ramban killings curfew in Valley
Ramban in Jammu division remained tense and under curfew on Friday, a day after four persons were killed in alleged firing by the Border Security Force (BSF) the day before. The killings in the Gool area of Ramban district, around 200 km from Jammu city, also cast a shadow over the Amarnath Yatra, which was suspended amid the threat of protests. Tension also gripped Srinagar and other major ...
Pakistani official to visit Kabul to discuss Karzai
Pakistan's national security advisor will visit Afghanistan Sunday to discuss the upcoming visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Islamabad, the foreign ministry said Friday. Sartaj Aziz, who will be accompanied by a senior official, will also call on the Afghan president and hold talks with senior Afghan officials on the reconciliation process and other matters, reports Xinhua. Prime ...
Syrian opposition casts doubt over Pak Talibans presence in war against Assad regime
Syria's main opposition group has said a Pakistani Taliban commander's claim that his fighters are establishing a presence in Syria to battle against President Bashar al-Assad's regime is doubtful. The Syrian National Coalition questioned news reports, saying the Taliban has opened an office in Syria. The group noted that a member of Taliban's Shura Council has denied the development, calling ...
717 people killed in religious violence against Pak minorities in past 18 months Report
Nearly 1800 casualties, including 717 deaths, were reported in around 203 incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan in the past 18 months, according to a report. The report was released by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for its Pakistan Religious Violence Project. It revealed that sectarian and religious violence in Pakistan is on the rise, and between January ...
Contempt case sought against Pak police for refusal to register FIR against Musharraf
A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court seeking contempt proceedings against two police officials for refusing to register a criminal case against former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf. The son of a deceased Lal Masjid cleric has submitted the petition in the IHC after two police officials, station house officer (SHO) of Aabpara police station and the senior ...
Real Pakistan Taliban vows to kill Malala on return to country
A senior representative of Tehrek-e-Taliban has said they will shoot Malala Yousafzai if she chose to return to Pakistan. The representative said that the group had no sympathies with the teenager, who was shot last year for demanding education for girls. The representative said that neither was Adnan Rashid a senior commander of the Taliban nor did the Taliban have anything to do with the ...
Sharif calls for flexible media laws to enable Pakistani channels to be viewed in India
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called on for flexible media laws to enable Pakistani channels to be viewed in India. Talking to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Zee TV Subhash Chandra, Sharif called relaxation of laws to facilitate media outlets and reach out to a maximum number of people in India and Pakistan. According to the Express Tribune, he said that media had the power of bringing the ...
Amarnath Yatra halted curfew imposed in Kashmir Valley
The annual Amarnath Yatra has been halted, as the Kashmir valley continues to remain tense, after clashes between local protesters and Border Security Forces (BSF) killed at least six people in Ramban on Thursday. Authorities today imposed a curfew in all major towns of Kashmir to thwart plans of separatist and religious groups to stage protests against the Ramban firing incident that left at ...
Curfew imposed in Kashmir valley following Ramban firing by BSF
Authorities today imposed a curfew in all major towns of Kashmir to thwart plans of separatist and religious groups to stage protests against the Ramban firing incident that left at least six persons dead on Thursday. "Curfew would remain in force till further orders from tomorrow (Friday) morning onwards in Srinagar and all other major towns of the Valley. The step has been necessitated to ...
Islamabad quizzes N. Delhi on Indian officers claim India staged Parliament Mumbai attacks
Pakistan has asked India to clarify its stand after an Indian government officer claimed that the 2001 Parliament and 2008 Mumbai attacks were engineered by New Delhi. Foreign ministry spokesperson Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry said that Pakistan's High Commissioner in New Delhi contacted the Indian government over the startling disclosure. The issue was also raised by Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas ...
Kashmir shut down after deadly protests
Authorities have imposed a curfew in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday following a strike call and a protest rally by separatists to protest the killing of four villagers in the Himalayan ...
Pakistan Poisoning Cook Mohammad Rafiq Arrested For Attack That Claimed 22 Lives
LAHORE, Pakistan -- Police have arrested a cook in central Pakistan who is accused of poisoning to death 22 people as part of a political feud between two branches of the same family, a local police chief said. The incident in the town of Mailsi in Punjab province followed recent provincial elections in which Arsal Khan Khichi lost to his cousin Jehanzaeb Khan Khichi, police chief Sadiq Dogar ...
High-Level Pakistani Official To Visit Afghanistan For Talks
A top Pakistani official will visit Afghanistan in an effort to improve relations between the often-quarreling neighbors. Pakistani officials said on July 19 that Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs, will arrive in Kabul on July 21 to hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the peace process in his country. Earlier, it was announced Aziz ...
22 people die after cook is paid $500 to poison meal police in Pakistan say
By Zaheer Babar, The Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan - A cook has been accused of poisoning to death 22 people as part of a political feud between two branches of the same family, according to an official in Pakistan.The incident in the town of Mailsi in Punjab province followed recent provincial elections in which Arsal Khan Khichi lost to his cousin Jehanzaeb Khan Khichi, police chief Sadiq ...
7 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan
At least seven people were killed in a U.S. drone strike launched in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan in the wee hours of Wednesday, reported local media Geo. According to the local media reports, the strike took place at about 1: 00 a.m. (local time) when U.S. drones fired four missiles at a house and a vehicle in the Danda Derpa Khel area of Miranshah, a main town in ...
Indian Kashmir shuts down over killing of protesters
SRINAGAR, India / Jammu and Kashmir (AFP) - Indian Kashmir largely shut down amid heavy security on Friday after troops shot dead four people during a protest over a paramilitary raid on an Islamic school.Shops, banks, schools and most government offices were closed in towns across the region, after a separatist leader called a three-day strike to protest Thursday's killings.Srinagar, the ...
Pakistan PM favours softening of laws to facilitate India-Pak media outlets
Islamabad, July 19/Nationalturk ? With journalists from India and Pakistan facing tough time in discharging their duties owing to hostile relationship between two countries, Pakistan's newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has proposed softening of laws to facilitate media outlets of the two countries. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian TV channel Zee TV Subhash Chandra ...
Curfew strike follow shooting deaths of 4 villagers in Indian Kashmir by government troops
SRINAGAR, India - Authorities have imposed a curfew in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday following a strike call and a protest rally by separatists to protest the killing of four villagers in the Himalayan region. Thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers erected checkpoints and laid barbed wire on roads in Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir, and were enforcing curfew to ...
Pakistani Cook Accused Of Mass Poisoning Arrested
Police in Pakistan have arrested a cook accused of poisoning 22 people to death in a political feud. Sadiq Dogar, police chief of Mailsi in the eastern province of Punjab, said on July 18 that the cook, Muhammad Rafiq, was allegedly paid $500 by a politician to poison a rival's family. Dogar said that after losing in May's provincial elections, Arsal Khan Khichi allegedly planned ...
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