UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked Saudi Arabia to provide convincing proof that could concretely back up Riyadh’s claims that its military coalition is adopting measures to prevent the killing and wounding of children in Yemen.
Ban told Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in New York on Thursday that he hoped “the coalition would be able to provide information on the concrete actions they have taken” ahead of a UN ...
Following a four-week pause, Friday and congregational prayers were resumed in Shiite mosques on Friday (July 15, 2016), as part of a joint decision made by Shiite clerics. Sheikh Mohammad Sanqour led the largest Friday prayer in Al-Diraz Mosque, calling on the authorities to cool down the atmosphere and restore trust with the citizens.
A large number of Shiite clerics issued a statement four weeks ago announcing the halt of Friday and ...
-A review of Leader’s letter to the youth in Europe and North America regarding the terrorist attacks of January 2015 in France
In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful
To the Youth in Europe and North America,
The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, rather it is because ...
"We believe Islam is a civilized religion, so we stand against those theories aimed to marginalize Islam and its teachings. If the Islamic seminary demands to establish a new form of civilization in the world, then it needs to provide the necessary conditions to realize its objective,"
Speaking at a gathering of students in Haqani school this morning, Ayatollah Arafi, Head of the Islamic Seminary said, "Our seminaries enjoy a long distinguished ...
Forces loyal to Turkey's government fought on Saturday to crush the last remnants of a military coup attempt which collapsed after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets and dozens of rebels abandoned their tanks.More than 160 people were killed, including many civilians, after a faction of the armed forces tried to seize power using tanks and attack helicopters. Some strafed the headquarters of Turkish ...
Sheik Bahai had many books that he has left behind as his heritage. Even to this day the scholars are drawing benefit from those books. In the discipline of Fiqh his monumental works are: “Habl al Mateen”, “Urwat al Wusqa” and “Jameh Abbasi” in which he has lucidly presented the nuances of Shia Fiqh. He had delved in the Ilm al Hadit very dexterously. In addition to these he wrote “Khulasat al ...
Alkhoei Foundation, a mainstream Shiaorganisation based in London issued a statement on Friday following Nice terror attack and said ” These acts of terror, which have become global, continue to stir emotions of disgust and anger at the warped sense of morality of these terrorists, which seriously falls short of the common values shared by all humans, religions and beliefs in all societies.”
According to Shafaqna, the ...
A prayer leader and an employee of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) were shot dead in separate incidents in District East of the city on Tuesday.
The prayer leader, 42-year-old Maulana Habibur Rehman, was shot dead inside Siddiq-e-Akbar Masjid in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
The incident occurred when Rehman was sitting in his office within the premises of the mosque after Zuhr prayers.
Police said at least two unidentified men ...
Ayatollah Sobhani said: “The anniversary of the destruction of Jannat al-Baqi is a second Ashura and Muslims around the world, especially Shi’as, must express their hatred toward the perpetrators of this crime and convey it to the people of the world.”
On the 90th anniversary of the Saudi destruction of tombs of four of the twelve Imams buried Madinah’s Jannat al-Baqi cemetery, Grand Ayatollah Ja’far ...
Iranian Intelligence Minister Sayyed Mahmoud Alavi informed on Tuesday that several terrorists' plots to hit Iranian targets to undermine public turnout in the Quds Day Rallies in Iran were foiled by his ministry forces, adding that half a dozen suspects have been arrested in connection with the plots."Six terrorists who were planning to conduct terrorist attacks during the Qud Day rallies and Qadr nights in the Holy Month of Ramadan have been ...
Saudi Arabia has arrested a senior cleric from the country’s minority Shia community as the kingdom continues to impose more restrictions on religious activities of people in its oil-rich east.
Reports on Tuesday suggested that Saudi authorities had arrested Sheikh Mohammad Hassan al-Habib, a prominent cleric in the Safavi region in Qatif. Locals said Habib, along with three of his companions, were arrested on Saturday and were ...
The representative of Ayatollah Isa Qassim in Iran referred to the recent events occurring in the Iraqi city of Fallujah and the victories of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq as well as the victories of the Syrian army in Aleppo, saying these victories have led to the defeat of Saudi Arabia on these fronts and they have now increased their efforts in Bahrain and Yemen.
He explained that in order to keep religious scholars and clerics out ...
What was the death toll in the killing fields of Jammu? There are no official figures, so one has to go by reports in the British press of that period. Horace Alexander’s article on 16 January 1948 inThe Spectator is much quoted; he put the number killed at 200,000.To quote a 10 August 1948 report published in The Times, London: “2,37,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated – unless they escaped to Pakistan along the ...
Boko Haram gunmen stormed a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state near the border with Cameroon killing seven people, resident said Saturday, while the army reported two soldiers died as well as 16 militants.
"They opened fire on homes as we slept and killed seven people before carting away our food supplies and drugs from the only clinic in the town," Rann resident Abba Abiso said. The Nigerian army confirmed the attack in a ...
A source from the Ministry of Interior revealed that two people were killed and nine others were injured in a bomb blast that rocked an area near a popular market in southern Baghdad early on Monday morning. “This morning, an improvised explosive device exploded near a popular market in al-Latifiya area in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding nine others,” informed the source. Adding further the source said, ...
Held every year on the last day of Ramadan – as to link the sanctity of the fast with Muslims’ duty to speak Truth in the face of Deceit, Al-Quds Day was founded by the late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; both a rallying cry of solidarity, and a sign of hope.
It is Imam Hussain who said: “It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.”
Through Al-Quds Day it is once ...
Anti Terrorism Court Shikarpur’s judge Fida Hussain Mughal has released the most dangerous four terrorists involved in Shikarpur and Jacobabad Suicide attacks, due to lack of evidence against crime No. 150/2015.During the proceeding of the case, the police officials, changed their statements, as per mentioned in the F.I.R.The six terrorists Akram Arain, Abdul Aziz Shaikh, Abdul Ghani Brohi, Siraj Ahmed Brohi, Muhammad Din Brohi and Siraj ...
