The streets of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the biggest city of Pakistan, Karachi, looked like a battlefield as seminary students protested the martyrdom of their teacher, Maulana Mohammad Ismail, on Monday. A senior teacher of the Jamia Arabia Ahsanul-Uloom seminary, Maulana Mohammad Ismail, was on his way to the seminary at around 8 am (local time) when […]

With a mosque and a Hindu temple are situated next to each others, a small village in Kashmir is standing as a centuries-old example of religious harmony in the Himalayan province.

Suicide attackers detonated bombs and fired rockets outside a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing “eighteen troops” in a brazen operation that highlighted the country’s security challenges ahead of the 2014 NATO combat troop pullout. Local police officials said bodies in Afghan police and military uniforms were scattered around the entrance of the […]

Five people, including three security personnel and a woman, were killed while 11 others seriously wounded in a bomb blast in Shahbaz Town area of Quetta, on Wednesday. The bombing occurred near the Foji Foundation School and office of the Balochistan Public Service Commission. The blast destroyed three vehicles, four motorbikes and damaged several shops.According […]

A suicide bomber blew himself up in Kabul’s diplomatic district on Wednesday, killing two people, an Afghan government official said. The blast was heard at the diplomatic district where U.S. and British embassies and the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are located. The blast prompted the United States embassy to sound […]

At least one US-led trooper has been killed in an explosion in the troubled southern Afghanistan, Press TVhas reported.

A prominent figure in Tunisia’s Salafist movement, Mohammed Bakhti, died on Saturday after going on hunger strike over his arrest for an attack on the U.S. embassy, in the second such death this week, his lawyer and the Justice Ministry said on Saturday. “He died in hospital at around 2 am (0100 GMT),” said Abdelbasset […]

Upset with the recent spate of sectarian attacks that have claimed dozens of life, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) chief Allama Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi on Tuesday announced that his organisation would hold countrywide protests on November 23. He was speaking to media personnel after chairing ASWJ’s general council meeting. We lost 45 activists during the […]

At least five people including two policemen and journalist were killed in Karachi, a metropolitan of Pakistan, during an ongoing wave of violence.

The seventh and youngest son of the Libyan slain strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi has been declared dead after his capture on Saturday, sources told Al Arabiya.