Death toll from twin deadly suicide bombings, targeting Shiite Muslims in Kurram tribal region, reached 57 on Saturday as more injured died of wounds, officials said. Officials and hospital sources say that nearly 180 others people were injured in the attacks in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram agency, just minutes before the people had to […]
Unidentified gunmen shot dead four people in Quetta Monday evening in a sectarian-motivated attack, police said. The gunmen, in a car, sprayed bullets at a vehicle of a trader belonging to Shia Hazara community as he was heading home. Police said four gunmen opened fire at the vehicle, carrying five persons, on the busy […]
A bomb attack killed 65 people and injured 157 others in Quetta Saturday evening, police said. Women and children were among the casualties, the city police chief, Mir Zubair told a news conference. The bomb, concealed in a water tanker in a tractor trolley, exploded in a marketplace and a two-storey building also […]
Islam, the second largest religion in the world, has the lowest median age as half of the Muslims are 23-year-old or younger, compared to 28 for the whole world population, a recent study says. A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion […]
Dec 19 2012 | Posted in
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Expressing concerns over the killings of Shia-Muslims, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday asked the Pakistani government to safeguard the minorities from sectarian attacks in the country. A press statement was issued by Asia Director at Human Rights Watch Brad Adams. He asked the government to hold accountable those responsible for ordering and participating in […]
In what appeared to be a rare development, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan urged the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of Shia killings across the country. He condemned the killings of Shia while addressing a joint press conference while sitting with prominent leader of Sunnat Wal Jamaat […]
Sep 3 2012 | Posted in
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In another act of barbarism, unidentified people on Saturday killed seven Hazaras in separate firing incidents in Hazar Ganji, the area of provincial metropolis. Police officials said that unidentified armed men open fire on a car near the Fruit Market, killing five people belonging to Hazara community. In second incident, unknown assailants targeted two people […]
The bloody war is continued and in the latest episode as many as 20 Shia Muslims have been forced out of a bus and killed in a sectarian attack in the northwestern district of Mansehra, the third such incident in the six months. According to the officials, the bus was traveling from the city of […]