On Saturday, 11 Parachinar residents were killed in Afghanistan — cut down by bullets fired by militants with a sectarian hue. The only reason the hapless victims were in Afghanistan is because the route on the Pakistani side, the Thall-Parachinar way, is closed to them for regular, everyday travel. The reasons are complex — as far back as 1982 dozens of Shia families from Sadda in lower Kurram were forced to relocate to Parachinar — but ...
According to Rosturizm, Russian nationals in Turkey should take steps to ensure their safety due to information that ISIS may be planning to take Russian hostages. Russia's Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) said Wednesday that Russian nationals in Turkey should take safety measures due to information that ISIS may be planning to seize Russian hostages. "The Federal Agency for Tourism informs that, according to competent authorities, the ...
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the German capital Berlin to commemorate the International Quds Day and show solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian nation.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - BERLIN, Germany - Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the German capital Berlin to commemorate the International Quds Day and show solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian nation.The demonstrators marched in central Berlin on ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Islamabad : Panic and fear gripped Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and financial hub, on Monday afternoon following the murder of a member of Sindh provincial assembly Raza Haider by unknown assailants in Nazimabad area where he had gone to attend a funeral.
Raza, 51, was a member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which has a political stronghold in Karachi. He was elected to the provincial assembly for the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - ABNA - The Malaysian government will not keep quiet to any form of insult against Islam in the country to avoid any untoward incidence.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Dr Mashitah Ibrahim said any form of insult against the religion should not be condoned and stern action should be taken against those who insulted Islam.
"I fear that something might happen if no stern action is taken," she told ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - In an unprecedented move Islamic scholars has suggested English Friday sermons for certain mosques, along with the reduction in the time gap between prayer call and the actual prayer in certain mosques.
The committee has also decided to install LCD screens at the pulpit for Imams to read out the sermons from, rather than using paper.
The suggestion came during a workshop organised by the General Authority for ...
Saudi Wahhabi security forces detained the Shia citizens, Heidar Ali al-Hamli and Mofied Ahmad al-Honeidi, from Awwamiya town in Qatif city.It is worth to mention that dozens of security forces backed with more than some military vehicles surrounded houses in Awwamiya town searching men in relation of peaceful protests taken place in the town this month.The police could arrest al-Hamli and al-Honeidi and transferred them to al-Qatif prison.The ...
Condemning the brutal crackdown in Bahrain, Saudi demonstrators on Friday called for the immediate withdrawal of the kingdom's troops from the country and an end to Riyadh assistance to Manama in suppressing anti-regime protests.The rally came one day after a protester was shot dead and two others were wounded after Saudi troops opened fire on a protest rally in the Awamiyah. It also came despite a strict ban imposed by Riyadh on any type of ...
-Israeli military forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian man and injured another, saying they attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack north of the occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Israeli soldiers opened fire as a car with three occupants on board was traveling allegedly at high speed toward them near the Palestinian town of al-Ramm, which lies northeast of al-Quds, early on Wednesday.
An unnamed Israeli spokeswoman said one of the ...
Thousands of people in 50 US cities accompanied by union members and anti war bodies, by holding demonstrations on Saturday afternoon, declared hatred to war mongering policies of US leaders and asked them to stop sanctions and enmity against Iran.Hundreds of people in New York shouted their opposition to any kind of threat for military operation and urged their statesmen to end illegal imposed sanctions against Iran.In New York, the ...
Police officer S.P. Vaid said the bus swerved off a mountain road, but the cause of the accident was not immediately clear. A police statement said 27 injured, 19 in critical condition, were taken to hospitals in Banihal, a town 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmir. Police said it had rained in the area, making the road slippery. Some landslides caused a heavy traffic jam on the main highway linking ...
More than 15,000 Palestinians from occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') and the 1948 occupied lands attended on Saturday the ninth festival of the Aqsa child and the third drawing contest for kids in the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards.
Deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib expressed his extreme delight to see such crowds attending this event to show their attachment to the holy sites.
For his part, head of ...
- Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, Orange County deputies responded to the Leaders Preparatory School on North Goldenrod Road, which includes a mosque, school and day care.They found 47-year-old Dominique Eloi walking out of the mosque carrying the weapon.A school employee said Eloi exited her vehicle with the 2-foot sword and did not respond to the employee when asked what business she had on the property.Leaders Preparatory was ...
According to Ahlul Bayt (A) News Agency – ABNA.ir – However, if a party in a case has objections to the use of such attire - which also includes the Sami national costume - the person wearing such clothing could be recused - in other words excused from the case - the board said.The National Courts Administration had initially proposed that all religious attire be banned in court rooms but revised its proposal after hearing opinions from ...
On Sunday, militants of al-Nusra Front (al-Qaeda branch in Syria) imposed Zakat (alms) on residents in the countryside of Idlib province, northern Syria. Nusra issued Sunday a statement saying that residents of the town of Dana and its surroundings in the countryside of Idlib are demanded to pay Zakat to the group. Local sources said that al-Nusra Front has notified residents through a statement to pay Zakat in order to fund the ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency –ABNA- Following terrorist attacks on Saudi Shiite mourners in 'Hussainiyah of Heidaryieh' and 'Mosque of al-Hamzeh' in the cities of Saihat and Dammam which claimed lives of some people, the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly released an important statement.
The full text of the statement is as follows:
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Once again Imam Hussein mourning ceremonies came under attack from ...
While we are only a week away from parliamentarian elections in Egypt after the fall of its former dictator Hosni Mubarak, the recent bloody developments in Cairo have changed many equations. Perhaps, a response to this public demand would be another revolution to free Egypt from the grasp of its military rule. The demonstrations held since Friday are in protest to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) measures to pass laws which are ...
The regime has fired Shia and even Sunni employees over months of peaceful protests in the country.The government has, instead, hired its own military forces and foreign nationals in state offices, with the purpose of reducing the number of Shia employees to less than 50 percent of the total work force.Al Khalifa regime has recently granted Bahraini nationality to a number of Iraqi Ba'athists and of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein loyalists ...
Donna Eljammal (26) is Sweden's first police cadet with a headscarf, Metro Se reported.She had wanted to join the police long before she started wearing a hijab."Ever since I was little. I want to help others and move instead of just sitting in front of a computer."A few years ago it became possible to wear a headscarf as part of the police uniform, after some debate.According to her, Sweden is a multicultural country and it's important that, ...
Speaking in a forum held at Iranian International Quran News Agency to review Quran translations into Russian and German, Dr Mohammad Reza Mohammadi added that Russian translators acknowledge that their rendering is not exactly the same as the original Arabic.He referred to Uthmanov, Krachkovsky, and Valeria Porokhova as some of those who have rendered the Holy Book into Russian in recent years. “They have presented a concept-based, ...
