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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Two suicide bombers have attacked a judicial compound in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing four people and taking hostages, officials said. One suicide bomber blew himself up outside the crowded complex on Monday, causing the deaths, said Information Minister Mian Iftikhar. The other attacker entered the complex in an apparent bid to storm into a jail and release fighters held there. He took hostages and was later shot dead by security forces, Iftikhar said. There…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Armed militants of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba on Monday assassinated the Shia Intellectual Professor Sibt-e-Jaffar in Liaquatabad Karachi. Professor Sibt-e-Jaffar, the principal of Liaquatabad degree college Karachi, was killed by the militants of Sipah-e-Sahaba near Liaquatabad Sindhi hotel. He embraced martyrdom on the spot.  Professor Sibt-e-Jaffar was renowned as “Ustad Sibta-e-Jaffar” among the Shia Community because of his unmatched services in Education, elegizing and poetry on Imam Hussain (as). Sources said college principal Sibt-e-Jaffar was on his way from…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Pakistan's government has passed a major milestone,  as its parliament became the first such democratically elected civilian-led body to finish its five-year term in a country that has faced three military coups and persistent political turmoil. After years of attacks carried out by anti-state and sectarian groups, worsening electricity blackouts and faltering economic growth, public dissatisfaction with the sitting government is high, and the next election will likely see the ruling Pakistan People's Party sitting…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Militants of Sipah-e-Sahaba shot martyred a handicapped Shia Muslim in Landhi Karachi. The gory incident of targeted murder took place in Landhi where the notorious terrorists opened fire upon Arshad Ali near Babar Market Landhi.  He was critically injured and rushed to hospital where embraced martyrdom. After autopsy, the body was taken to Masjid and Imam Bargah Abul Fazl Abbas for funeral prayer. Shia parties and leaders have condemned the targeted murder of the innocent Shia…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- The head of a U.N. team investigating casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan declared after a secret research trip to the country that the attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty. Ben Emmerson, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said the Pakistani government made clear to him that it does not consent to the strikes – a position that has been disputed by U.S. officials. President Barack Obama has stepped up covert CIA drone…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- A separatist group fighting the Pakistani government for years has deployed a new weapon in its arsenal, police said: child bombers. Police in the southwestern Balochistan province say they have arrested a group of children as young as 8 that the United Baloch Army has been using to carry out attacks. "All the children belong to extremely poor and down-trodden families," officer Zubair Mehmood told a crowded news conference Wednesday. The militant group paid…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –A Shia Muslim was shot martyred by Saudi-backed armed militants of Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba in Pakistan’s commercial hub Karachi on Tuesday. Syed Ijaz Hussain Jaffari was gunned down by the terrorists near at Nazimabad Block 3 Karachi when he was going to his office. Martyr Ijaz Hussain Jaffari was the member of Muttahida Qaumi Movement. His body was shifted to the Shah-e-Karbala Mosque Rizvia Society Nazimabad. Its pertaining to mention here that the Muttahida Qaumi…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –A Shiite named Nawazish Ali was martyred when terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba opened fire on him in Pakistan’s city, Peshawar. The Shiite, Nawazish Ali was targeted in Peshawar’s Badshah Bazar when he was on his way home after closing his shop for the day. Shiites are being targeted on daily basis by Saudi-backed terrorists without consequences. The Security Agencies seem helpless.  Pak Army Captain Syed Abbas, martyred in bomb blast A roadside bomb attack Monday in…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- Hundreds of Christians in Pakistan protesting against the burning of their homes by a mob over alleged blasphemous remarks made against Prophet Muhammad have clashed with police in at least two cities. Police fired tear gas canisters and used batons to disperse almost a thousand demonstrators who had gathered in Karachi and Lahore, and took six protesters into custody. In Lahore, hundreds of protesters, some carrying large crucifixes, blocked a main highway as they pressed their demands for better compensation payments from…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –Iranian lawmakers have condemned the ongoing killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, holding the enemies of Islam responsible for the violence against Pakistani Shias. A total of 234 members of Iran Majlis (parliament), in a statement released on Sunday, censured the targeted killing of Pakistani Shias.  “The repeated brutal slaying of innocent Pakistani Shias is undoubtedly a plot hatched by the enemies of Islam -- particularly the US, Britain and their regional accomplices -- and…