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Lucknow, Sept 20 (ANI): A senior official of Shia Muslim community has said that Eid-ul-Fitr would be celebrated on Monday.

Kalbe Sadiq, Shia cleric and senior vice president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said here that the Ramadan moon would be sighted on Sunday.

“I can say without any doubt that in Bangladesh, [...]

Islamabad, Aug.19 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that the Taliban has been defeated in the Swat Valley.

In an interview with the News ahead of his meeting with US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, Zardari said Pakistan was a united nation and would always stand united against its enemy.

“We are [...]

New Delhi, Aug.13 (ANI): China continues to remain reluctant about supporting India’s proposal at the United Nations to place sanctions on the Jaish-e-Mohammad.

ANI has learnt that in the recent meeting between the Special Representatives of the two countries led by National [...]

L’Aquila (Italy), July 8 (ANI): Taking a serious note of the absence of the Chinese president at the G8 summit, Indian officials believe that Hu Jintao’s absence during the summit will be a big setback to the G5 outreach nations.

Jintao has [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): The subsequent release of Lashkar-e-Toiba’s (LeT) chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed, the hardcore Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdullah Aziz, and now the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammed (TNSM) chief Sufi Mohammad has cast serious doubts over Pakistan’s claims that it is seriously acting against the Taliban and other home grown terror outfits, a senior US intelligence [...]

Lahore, June 29 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that it is not possible to have peace with India until the Kashmir issue is resolved, and added that Islamabad always wanted cordial relations with all neighbouring countries.

“I want to say again that Pakistan has always wanted to have cordial relations with all [...]

Islamabad, June 28 (ANI): Former Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz has been apprehended with a letter written by Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud to a former ISI general, strengthening the notion that links between banned militant organizations and the ISI are as strong as ever.

Aziz was picked up by intelligence [...]

Peshawar, June26 (ANI): The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain has said that reports about the death of Taliban Swat chapter deputy leader, Shah Durran, had not been confirmed yet.

“We’ve heard reports of Shah Durran’s death, and his consequent funeral and burial, but we cannot officially confirm it unless we have concrete [...]

Peshawar, Apr 30 (ANI): A large number of Taliban leaders have shifted from Quetta to Karachi, Peshawar and other cities and are maintaining a low profile fearing fresh US drone strikes.

Taliban leaders after discussing in detail the situation, caused by recent threats of drone attacks by the United States, United Kingdom and other allies, have [...]

Islamabad, Apr 28 (ANI): Pakistan’s Tableeghi Jamaat has denounced the enforcement of the Sharia at gunpoint, religious extremism, militancy and terrorism.

Leaders of the Jamaat also called for promoting inter-faith harmony, tolerance, human rights, social justice and peace.

They were speaking at the conclusion of a three-day congregation near here, The News reports.

“Shariah cannot be [...]

Mingora, Apr 28 (ANI): Tension in the Swat Valley is fast growing as the Taliban continues armed patrolling and threatened a group of lawyers and recalcitrant militants. It also captured a telephone exchange in Sataal and looted two NGO offices in Saidu Sharif while preparing for a showdown with security forces.

Meanwhile, US spy planes flew [...]

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Peshawar, Apr 27 (ANI): Pakistani security forces have killed at least 46 militants in a ground and air operation against the Taliban in the troubled Lower Dir on Monday, the army has said./pp
According to security sources, 46 militants including two top commanders Qari Quresh [...]

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Islamabad, Apr.27 (ANI): The Taliban has threatened to take revenge from the villagers of the Buner region who had formed ‘Lashkar’ to prevent them advancing further in the region./pp
Maulana Misbahuddin Malikpuri, a Taliban operative, said the outfit would seek [...]

Agra, Apr 23 (ANI): A madarsa in Agra is highlighting the importance of voting to its students. The teachers at the madarsa are trying to motivate the future voters.

The teachers at the madarsa feel that it’s best to catch the children young, as they grasp more and follow whatever they are taught in the times [...]

Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) The Sharia laws imposed in Swat Valley and other parts of Pakistan’s restive northwest Monday rocked the Senate, the upper house of parliament, with the Muttahidda Quami Movement (MQM) and other opposition parties walking out in protest against the remarks of a Taliban-linked radical cleric on the country’s judicial system.
Prior to [...]

Lahore, Apr. 21 (ANI): Pak-Taliban chief Sufi Muhammad’s Islamic ideology and Sharia implementation in Swat are incorrect, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said.

The News quoted Rehman, as saying that the procedure for enforcing Sharia in Swat was not correct and the recommendations [...]

Hardline cleric Sufi Muhammad, who played a key role in enforcing Islamic law in Pakistan’s restive northwestern SWAT valley, said on Sunday that there is no room for democracy in Islam and it contravenes the Quran.
Addressing a gathering of thousands of people at Mingora, the main city in Swat district, the chief of the banned [...]

Islamabad, April 19 (IANS) Taliban-linked radical cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammed Sunday said existing judicial system of Pakistan was un-Islamic and vowed to impose sharia all across the country.
Sufi Mohammed, chief of the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM), termed judges, lawyers and pro-democracy clerics of Pakistan as ‘rebels’.
‘Opposition to enforcement of (the law as per) the holy Quran [...]

Islamabad, April 19 (IANS) The video footage of a girl being flogged by Taliban militants in Pakistan’s restive Swat valley is a fake, a five-member team of investigators has said in its final report.
Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said: ‘It (the probe team) has completed its investigation and handed over a report to me.’
The report said [...]

Islamabad, Apr. 20 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf has claimed that no child or woman was killed in the controversial military operation conducted in Lal Masjid in 2007.

“It is time to end the lies. Those who say women and children were killed and several hundreds died in the Lal Masjid operation are [...]