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Islamabad: A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan, opening fire and killing six people as they were praying, a Taliban official said Tuesday.Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan said the mosque was targeted because it was a place of worship for the country's Shiite Muslim ...

ISLAMABAD  —  Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that an overnight attack on a Shiite mosque in a western region bordering Iran had killed at least six people, including a child. An Interior Ministry spokesman reported that an “unknown armed person” stormed the mosque in the Guzara district in ...

Government spokesman says unknown armed person shot at worshippers in a mosque in Herat province, killing at least six people.A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman says. Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said “an unknown armed person shot ...

Srinagar: Police on Saturday said that a mentally deranged person was behind the desecrating of Shrine and mosque in Dadsara area of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.In a handout ,the police said that regarding yesterday’s incident of disrespect to local shrine and mosques in Dadsara in Tral by ...

Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered a case against miscreants attempting to desecrate a shrine and a mosque in Dadsara Tral in Pulwama district on intervening Thursday and Friday night. A Police spokesperson said, “Yesterday night, some miscreants attempted to disrespect the local shrine and a mosque in Dadsara ...

The heartwarming gesture has come to the fore from Malpore village in Sopore, 55 kilometre from Srinagar, where the local mosque committee started collecting donations both in cash and in kind. Published Date - 16 April 2024, 09:35 AM Sopore: An egg donated to raise ...

SRINAGAR, Apr 8: A man has been arrested for stealing a donation box from a mosque in Jammu Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said on Monday.A police station in Pattan received a complaint on April 4, from president of Masjid Baitul Huda Pattan regarding the theft. Next day a mobile ...

Imam Zakir Hussain was getting ready for morning prayers early Tuesday when the police came knocking at his Mehrauli mosque. Children who live and study at the madrasa functioning from the premises were told to pack up and leave. The Akhoondji Masjid and Behrul Uloom madrasa were, later, demolished ...

New Delhi: After the ASI survey found remnants of a temple in Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque, BJP leader and union minister Giriraj Singh said on Friday that the Muslim side should hand over the mosque to Hindus. Union minister Giriraj Singh said youths of the country will have to become ...

Members of the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) team conducting a scientific survey at the Gyanvapi mosque complex, in Varanasi. | Photo Credit: PTI There existed a Hindu temple prior to construction of Gyanvapi mosque: Archaeological Survey of IndiaThe western wall of the Gyanvapi mosque located in Varanasi, Uttar ...