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Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Farooq Abdullah with vice-president Omar Abdullah during a press conference in Srinagar on April 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad National Conference (NC) president Dr. Farooq Abdullah on Friday announced the names of Omar Abdullah and Shia cleric Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi ...

ISLAMABAD —  Thousands of mourners attended a funeral Saturday for a Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric gunned down on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, police and a spokesperson for the cleric's organization said. The funeral of Masoodur Rehman Usmani was held a day after unidentified gunmen shot and killed ...

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have released a top cleric and pro-freedom leader and allowed him to lead the congregational Friday prayers after more than four years of house detention. An emotional Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday led the prayers at the disputed region’s main mosque in Srinagar city amid ...

#Pakistan News Mosque authorities reported Indian authorities ended a four-year house arrest of a prominent Muslim cleric, permitting him to conduct Friday prayers in Srinagar, the principal city of Indian-administered Kashmir. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been spearheading protests against Indian rule in the disputed region. He was detained ahead ...

Source link www.rferl.org An angry mob lynched a man in northwestern Pakistan on May 6 after what locals claimed was a blasphemous reference during a political rally in the district of Mardan. Source link Copyright (c) 2019. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio ...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against four Muslim clerics for allegedly hurting sentiments of the Shia community, an official said on Wednesday.Based on a complaint by a Mumbai-based man, the J J Marg police on Tuesday registered the case against the four accused hailing from Lucknow, ...

Maulana Mohammad Usman Rahmani, the Shahi Imam of Punjab's Ludhiana | Twitter/@LudhianviUsman Maulana Mohammad Usman Rahmani, the Shahi Imam of Punjab's Ludhiana, took exception to the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi for keeping Kerala Hajj pilgrim Shihab Chittur in the lurch regarding his visa status, adding that the man ...

File Photo NEW DELHI, Sept 22: Taking forward his outreach to the Muslim community, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday visited a mosque and a madrassa here and held discussions with the chief of the All India Imam Organisation who termed him ‘rashtra pita’.The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ‘sarsangchalak’ went ...

Islamabad —  A suicide bomber struck a packed mosque in western Afghanistan Friday, killing at least 18 worshippers, including a prominent cleric loyal to the ruling Taliban. Police officials said the influential slain scholar, Mujibur Rahman Ansari, was leading afternoon prayers at his Guzargah Mosque in the city of ...

#Pakistan News Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani was a prominent cleric in the Taliban administration, who had survived previous attacks. Four Taliban sources said the attacker was someone who had previously lost his leg and had hidden the explosives in a plastic artificial leg. (Reuters) A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah ...