Sunni Bayan Hyderabad

Ministers approach Sunni Tehreek leaders after negotiations with local admin fail

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Sunni Tehreek leaders have been invited to speak to a team of ministers after their negotiations with the local administration failed, officials and organisers of a Sunni Tehreek rally said...

The capital administration, earlier on Wednesday, was attempting to negotiate with organisers of the Tehreek Laibak Ya Rasulallah rally, led by the Sunni Tehreek, which travelled from Lahore and reached the garrison city on...

Activists held in Rangers raid on Sunni Tehreek headquarters

KARACHI: Rangers picked up several activists of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) in a raid on its headquarters in the old city area on Wednesday, according to sources and the party leaders...

Iran’s Sunni leader endorses Rouhani for re-election

Abdol Hamid repeated calls for greater Sunni representation in local and national government, and more action on discrimination...

“The Sunni community believes that this government, despite its problems and weaknesses, has had more strong points, and we hope if the current government takes office again, it will do more to resolve those problems and shortcomings,” he said in comments carried by his website...

Sunni mosques firebombed in Iraq after IS-claimed blasts

BAGHDAD: At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed on Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by Islamic State...

At least two Sunni mosques south of Baghdad were attacked last week after a Shia cleric was executed in Saudi Arabia, triggering angry reactions in Iraq and neighboring Iran...

Rangers detain Sunni Tehreek leaders, claims party spokesman

KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers Sindh reportedly detained two central leaders of Sunni Tehreek (ST) late Sunday night, a party spokesperson told Dawn...

He added that the Sunni Tehreek leaders had gone there to take up the issue of Rangers’ raid on their head office despite the fact that they were supporting the Rangers-led operation to bring peace in the metropolis...

Rangers issue details of detained Sunni Tehreek activists

KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Tuesday released details of accused criminals detained during a raid at the Sunni Tehreek headquarters...

Rangers had raided the Sunni Tehreek headquarters on June 17 and arrested several activists...

Iran's Sunni cleric says executions may inflame regional tensions

DUBAI: A leading Iranian Sunni Muslim said the execution of alleged Sunni militants last week could inflame sectarian tensions in the Gulf region, while Tehran said it was merely taking a tough stance on foreign-backed terrorism...

Iran executed up to 20 Sunni Kurds accused of attacks on security forces...

For the first time, Saudi Arabia is being attacked by both Sunni and Shia leaders

Swamped in their ridiculous war in Yemen, they are now reeling from an extraordinary statement issued by around two hundred Sunni Muslim clerics who effectively referred to the Wahhabi belief — practised in Saudi Arabia — as “a dangerous deformation” of Sunni Islam...

For the statement, obviously approved by Vladimir Putin, is as close as Sunni clerics have got to excommunicating the Saudis...

Sunni Tehreek to back PTI candidates

On Friday night, Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) district president Muhammad Ijaz Qadri announced his party’s support for PTI candidates in the district...

Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, allies distance themselves from TLP protest call

HYDERABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) and its allied parties have distanced themselves from Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pak­istan’s (TLP) call for coun­trywide protest on Nov 25 and said they were never part of TLP...

They demanded immediate release of activists of Tanzeemat-i-Ahle Sunnat, a conglomerate of various religious parties including Pakistan Sunni Tehreek, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, Darul Uloom Ahsanul Barkat, Dargah Syedna...

Sunni imam shot dead in northern Iran

A Sunni imam who leads Friday prayers was shot dead on Tuesday in a village in northern Iran, official news agency IRNA said...

Imams who lead Friday prayers, whether Sunni or Shia, are appointed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest religious and political authority...

Living: The jogi artisans of Hyderabad

In Hyderabad, the Jogi, a Gujrati-speaking Hindu minority artisan community survives in miserable socio-economic conditions in a small, ghetto-like slum settlement near the central city area...

Sectarian tension in Hyderabad localities subsides

HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid Rais, located in neighbouring Gulshan-i-Rais, a couple of days back...

A local leader of the Pakis­tan Sunni Tehreek (PST), Mr Imran, said that sectarian tension gripped the localities around the mosque since Wednesday, when the prayer...

Murder, rape convict executed in Hyderabad

A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison...

This is the first execution to take place in Hyderabad since 2015, when two death-row prisoners convicted for the 1998 hijacking of a PIA Fokker were executed in Karachi and Hyderabad jails...

Anti-drugs rally held in Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: A rally against drugs was taken out by a number of students of public and private schools and colleges along with scores of police officials on Thursday...

According to a Hyderabad police spokesperson, district police launched the anti-drug campaign from Nov 17 to 23 in collaboration with the Crime and Human Rights Cell set up at Hyderabad SSP office...