TEHRAN: The extremist groups and some authorities have curbed Sunnis in Tehran province to offer Friday prayers with congregation after forbidding them before to offer Eid prayers in the capital of Iran.
ZAHEDAN, IRAN: Due to the detention of passport of Shaikh Abdul Hameed, the eminent Sunni scholar and the chairman of Union of Sunni seminaries of Sistan-Baluchistan by the Iranian authorities respected Shaikh has cancelled his trip to Qatar where he wanted participating in the Eighth Conference of Doha Interfaith Dialogue.
TEHRAN: The Iranian authorities have arrested Haji Abdul Raheem Shah Bakhsh, the son-in-law of the prominent Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdul Hameed in Tehran.
Pakistan has freed a top Taliban commander in Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who can play a major role in secret talks with the US through the Pakistani army.
KARACHI: In a fresh spate of violence that erupted in the metropolis city Saturday, one day ahead of by-polls, has left at least 15 people killed and over four dozens others injured while unknown armed men forced shops in different areas to close, Geo News reported Saturday.
A new report says the US military is mistreating detainees and violating its own rules at a secret prison in Afghanistan as Washington is pushing to make peace with the Taliban insurgents.
One more US-led troop was killed by a Taliban-style bomb Friday, NATO said as it announced that another soldier died from injuries sustained in a similar attack a day earlier.
US leaders know they cannot win the Afghan war despite the heavy costs that the United States is paying for it, an American activist says. While the Afghan war is taking its heavy toll on both the American troops and civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the majority of the US military commanders as well as […]
Four people have been killed in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region only hours after another US drone attack had killed four people.
SANANDAJ: After the demand of Islamic scholars as well as the public of Kurdistan province the General Culture Council has asked the Iranian parliament to legislate the legal opinion (fatwa) of Ayatollah Khamenehi.