NEW DELHI: India’s leading Urdu scholar and literary critic Shamim Hanafi died here on Thursday, his friends and followers said...
Mr Hanafi was one of the most respected literary critics, playwrights and poets of the subcontinent...
The chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, on Friday said that namaz and other religious activities should only be offered at their designated places and not in the open, stressing that the practice will "not be tolerated" , local media reported...
"Someone offers namaz, someone does paath (recitation of holy texts), someone does puja (worship) — we have no issue with that...
A movement for the safe recovery of missing Shia persons was announced on Friday in Karachi, with leaders and members of the Shia community presenting themselves for voluntary arrest to force the government to take action on the issue...
The 'Fill the Jail Movement' has been initiated in protest against the forced disappearances of 150 Shia persons, community leaders said...
KARACHI: A large number of people took part in a protest rally in the city on Sunday to condemn the recent execution of a prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, in Saudi Arabia...
Meanwhile, Allama Rab Nawaz Hanafi, a local leader of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, in a statement said the executions in Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with targeting any Shia or certain Sunni individuals...
Secretary general of the proscribed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Taj Hanafi and All Pakistan Shia Action Committee Chief Allama Mirza Yusuf Husain were detained in Karachi, officials said Sunday...
According to the Rangers, Hanafi was arrested from Karachi's Nagan Chowrangi area on Sunday afternoon...
KARACHI: Police resorted to heavy tear gas shelling and fired into the air in a Malir locality to disperse a large number of people who blocked the National Highway as well as the main railway track for hours on Monday in protest over the recent arrest of a Shia cleric and leaders...
In the evening, the police released around two dozen protesters, who were earlier taken into custody for the Monday violence, on the directives of Sindh...
GENEVA: Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it would not oppose a resolution at the UN-backed Human Rights Council seeking an independent, international investigation of rights violations and crimes in war-torn Yemen, but raised questions about the “timing”...
“We have no objection [to] the inquiry itself, we just have a discussion about the timing,” Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Geneva, Abdulaziz al-Wasil, said...
While their grievances are genuine, the timing of the referendum is questionable...
”But the timing of the DFS move as well as the amount of the potential penalty has surprised many in the local banking community and they smell a rat in it...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court said on Thursday the decision of shutting down shops and business places at 8pm was a policy matter of the government and the court had no jurisdiction to interfere in it...
With this observation, Justice Ijazul Ahsan dismissed a petition filed by All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran central secretary general Naeem Mir, assailing the decision for being discriminatory and unconstitutional
ZURICH: FIFA leader Sepp Blatter on Friday joined figures who have questioned the timing of a police raid to arrest top football figures just two days ahead of a presidential vote by the world body...
“People talk about a coincidence, but I have a small question mark about the timing,” he said...
The petitioner claimed the timing for the capital and Punjab markets was discriminatory as other provinces were exempted from such restriction...
In accordance with the Azaan calendar, all sects including Shia, Hanfi (both Deobandi and Barelvi) and Ahle Hadis will offer prayers at uniform timings...
However, no authority has been given the responsibility of implementing the system and even the mechanism for the distribution of Azaan and Namaz calendar is unclear...
ISLAMABAD: When it comes to passing witty remarks, federal minister for water and power Khawaja Mohammad Asif carries the distinction to stay ahead of his fellow lawmakers in the National Assembly...
In his concluding speech over the energy crisis on Thursday, Mr Asif, offered his immense gratitude to the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) for breaking story on the alleged cooperation between the Indian RAW and Muttahida Qaumi (MQM)...