Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims took part in the ceremony of Ashura in Karbala on Sunday amid heavy security presence in the city. Ashura rituals are usually carried out in religious sites in different locations marking the holiest day on the Shi’ite Muslim calendar. Processions of men beating drums marched and beat their backs with steel…
Authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday denied permission for the 10th Muharram (Ashura) procession to proceed in the capital of the valley, Srinagar. According to Kashmir Media Service, as the authorities have continued the decades-old ban on Ashura processions along the traditional route from Abi Guzar to Zadibal in Srinagar, the…
Residents fear the clearances will erase not just buildings, but their own status as refuge TULKAREM (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, the landscape has been transformed after Israeli army bulldozers ploughed through its two refugee camps in what the military called a hunt for Palestinian militants. The army gave…
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 33 Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it has struck over 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past day. The strikes came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preparing to fly to Washington for talks at the White House aimed at…
South Korean special prosecutors filed a new request on Sunday to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol, a day after he appeared before them for questioning over his declaration of martial law last year. Yoon, who is facing a criminal trial on insurrection charges over the martial law declaration in December, was arrested in January…
RAWALPINDI: A total of 65 processions, 16 of them categorised as most sensitive, eight as less sensitive and 41 as normal, will be taken out on Ashura in Rawalpindi amid tight security arrangements. The processions will be monitored by about 2,000 CCTV cameras installed under the Safe City project in the garrison city on Sunday….
ISLAMABAD: The chief justices of Islamabad, Sindh, Balochistan and Peshawar high courts are likely to take oath next week. However, formal notifications of their appointments are yet to be issued. The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on July 1 approved the appointment of Justice Sardar Mohammad Sarfraz Dogar as the chief justice (CJ) of Islamabad High Court,…
SAHIWAL: Following Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s directive, Pakpattan police on Saturday registered three FIRs in connection with the death of 20 babies at the paediatric ward of Pakpattan District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital between June 16 and 22. Two FIRs have been registered against hospital officials and lab technicians for what the CM described as “criminal negligence” during a…
Mourners participate in a Muharram 10 procession in Karachi on July 6. — Yaum-i-Ashura processions commenced across the country on Sunday amid tight security, police said. Yaum-i-Ashura is observed every year on Muharram 10 with solemnity to pay homage to Imam Husain — the grandson of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) — and other martyrs of…
In Hyderabad’s centuries-old Imambargahs, mourners gather to perform sacred Muharram rituals steeped in devotion, grief and hope. It was 3:30am in Khokhar Mohalla, one of Hyderabad’s oldest neighbourhoods, when streams of women clad in black crossed security barriers on July 4. Some carried sleepy toddlers in their arms; others held the hands of young boys…
