Powerful blast in Shia mosque in Pak kills 20

The All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) on Thursday appealed to all Muslims of the country to ignore fringe groups attempting to stir up communal passions in the country by raking up issues like religious conversion

[Photo:Funeral of Shia Muslims killed byISISinDiyala province ] A double suicide attack on a base housing militia groups fighting alongside the government north of Baghdad killed at least six people on Thursday, medical sources said. The ...

Spiritual leader and head of the Shia Muslim community in the Northern Region has called for concerted efforts to combat the activities of Boko Haram and their allied bodies who are terrorizing innocent people under the pretence of safeguarding ...

Union Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptullah on Thursday said that the property belonging to Muslim Sunni and Shia Waqf boards in the country will be registered and developed to fund minority welfare activities.

With just a few days left for the Delhi Assembly elections, the Shia Muslim clerics have said they will be forced to reconsider their stance keeping in mind the Jorbagh Karbala issue. They said this would depend on whether Union Home minister ...

By SATP By Ambreen Agha* On January 16, 2015, at least three Shia Muslims were shot dead in Rawalpindi District while they were returning home from a religious gathering. The victims were identified as lawyer Fayyaz Hussain Shah (40), ...

Thousands of Shia Muslims on Sunday took out a huge procession in the city on Chehellum to commemorate the 40th day of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain and his 71 companions at Karbala

Control over the Taj Mahal has become a bone of contention among Shia and Sunni Muslims, with both sects staking claim for the 17th century tomb that emperor Shah Jahan had built for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. After UP minister Azam Khan's statement that the Taj ...

In an effort to bring back Indian Muslims who have joined ISIS, a six-member delegation of Anjuman-e-Haideri (AEH), a Shia committee from Delhi, will visit Iraq for four days starting Sunday. Akali Dal has lent its support to the Shia body as around 45 men ...