Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hameed Ismaeelzahi, urged on the legal rights of the Iranian Sunni community reminding the authorities to respect Sunnis’ sanctities and religious freedom. He was talking to hundreds of citizens in Khash city of the Baluchistan region in Iran.

The longest-serving chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) of Pakistan and former lawmaker Qazi Hussain Ahmed died of cardiac arrest late Saturday night in the federal capital. He was 74.

Armed militants attacked a passenger train and killed four people including a FC personnel and injured around a dozen in Bolan district of Balochistan, Pakistan, on Saturday night, an official said.

Ten people were killed including Taliban warlord Mullah Nazir and several others injured in multiple US drone strikes carried out in the South and North Waziristan tribal regions on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

The Taliban has likened the planned withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan to America’s pullout from Vietnam, calling it a “declare victory and run” strategy in a statement on Wednesday.

Pakistan has freed four more Afghan Taliban prisoners, including a former justice minister, a Pakistani government official has said, in another sign Islamabad is supporting efforts to start formal peace talks with the armed group.

At least 17 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed by a bomb attack on a bus convoy in southwest Pakistan, local officials say.More than 20 people have been injured in the incident in the Mastung district of Balochistan province.   Pakistan has experienced worsening sectarian violence in recent years. Last month 23 Shia Muslims were […]

The head of the Pakistani Taliban has appeared in a video calling for peace talks with the government. Hakimullah Mehsud said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday. The release of the 40-minute video follows three high-profile Taliban attacks […]

Four people have been killed in yet another US assassination drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border.

Muslim scholars in Kyrgyzstan have issued a fatwa banning New Year celebrations in the country, drawing mixed reactions from residents.