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NEW DELHI: Global terror outfit Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deadly blast at a Shia mosque in Islamabad that led to over three dozen casualties on Friday. Toll rose to 36 on Saturday after some critically injured people died in hospitals, said a PTI report. In a related development that has attracted the…
JAMMU: Hundreds of Shia Muslims on Saturday staged spontaneous protests in various parts of Kashmir to condemn a suicide bombing at the Khadija Tul Kubra Mosque in Islamabad that killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 169 others.The attack took place during Friday prayers in Pakistan’s capital city. The attack on a Shia…
At least 31 people were killed and dozens more injured in an explosion at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai area on the outskirts of Islamabad, with the death toll expected to rise.A worshipper, Zaheer Abbas, said he was inside the mosque offering prayers when he first heard the sound of gunfire,…
ISLAMABAD: A suicide blast at a Shia mosque in Islamabad killed at least 31 on Friday, with a police source saying more than 170 were wounded in the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s capital since the 2008 Marriott bombing that claimed 60 lives. The explosion at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque on the city’s outskirts…
Stone-Pelting Injures 5 Police During MCD Demolition at Turkman Gate NEW DELHI: At around 1 am on Wednesday, a demolition drive by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) near Faiz-e-Ilahi Mosque in Turkman Gate, close to Ramlila Maidan, turned tense as some individuals resorted to stone-pelting, injuring multiple police personnel.Delhi Police have registered an FIR…
MCD carries out demolition near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid following Delhi HC order NEW DELHI: At least five police personnel were injured on Wednesday after incidents of stone-pelting were reported during an early-morning demolition drive carried out by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) at an encroached area near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid in Turkman Gate, close to Ramlila…
Syrian security forces inspect the damage after an explosion in the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque (AP photo) A bombing at a mosque located in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 21 others, authorities told news agency AP.Images released by Syria’s state-run Arab News Agency…
JAIPUR: Four policemen were injured early Friday in Jaipur district when a mob pelted stones at them while they tried to remove iron railings outside a mosque, police said.The incident occurred around 3 am near the bus stand area in Chomu town, about 40 km from Jaipur.Tensions escalated as the railings, which encroached onto the…
Bibi Rajinder Kaur said the Muslims of Jakhwali village had to go for namaz to the next village. ‘I thought of giving them five marlas of land so that they have a place to pray,’ Kaur said. JAKHWALI (FATEHGARH SAHIB): In the season of giving, a 75-year-old Sikh woman has donated land for the construction…
LUCKNOW: Indo-Islamic cultural foundation (IICF), looking after the construction of the mosque mandated by the Supreme Court in the Ram Janambhoomi – Babri Masjid case judgement, has strongly criticized the suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir’s decision of building a mosque to name it after Babur in Beldanga of Murshidabad district in West Bengal.Secretary of the…
