At least 71 people have been killed in a series of attacks by the Taliban in Paktia and Ghazni provinces, officials in Afghanistan say.

The number of hate crimes against Britons of ethnic or religious minorities soared around the time the UK voted to quit the European Union and in the aftermath of recent attacks, according to a government report.

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar urged on providing due rights of ethnic and religious communities. He termed any kind of excuse in this regard ‘unacceptable’.

In the presence of tens of thousands, the funeral prayers of Shaikh-ul-Hadith Mawlana Mohammad Yousuf Husseinpour was offered in Mosalla of Gosht city, Saravan district of Iranian Balochistan on Wednesday 11th Oct. 2017.

Mawlana Mohammad Yousuf Husseinpour passed away after a heart surgery in Karachi of Pakistan on Monday 9th Oct. 2017.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, the president of Darululoom Zahedan and chairman of the Coordination Council of Sunni Seminaries in Sistan-Baluchistan mourned the loss of Shaikh-ul-Hadith Mawlana Mohammad Yousuf Husseinpour, the president of Ain-ul-Uloom Gosht, Saravan.

The most influential Iranian Sunni leader has urged on resolving the problems of Kurdistan’s people by negotiation and peaceful legal channels. He warned about any kind of sanctions and sieging the Kurdistan region.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered ethnic minority Muslim families to hand in religious items including prayer mats and copies of the Quran to the authorities, RFA has learned.

Germany’s Muslim community is voicing concern over the surge of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Sunday’s federal election.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the kingdom, state media reported.