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SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — “At least 60 people belonging to Hazara community living in Quetta have been killed in targeted attacks, including suicide, remote-controlled and timer device bombings and firing in this year,” says a report published in this newspaper, following a brutal attack on Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community. Thursday’s bomb attack in the Hazarganji area on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Balochistan was not the first such attack of the year. Not even…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — At least eight people have been killed in the latest US assassination drone strike in the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Sunday morning. The attack comes days after a US assassination drone fired two missiles on a building in the Shawal area, 50 kilometers southwest of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan district, leaving at least…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — In his view, the attack was part of a systematic wave of violent incident against Hazara community whose 60 people have been brutally martyred during past six months. He added, “We condemn the terrorist attack on pilgrims’ bus in Quetta. Our prayers go out to all the families of the victims & for recovery of injured”. The Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was of the opinion that there could be serious repercussions if dangerous…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — The bus, carrying 40 Shia pilgrims, was travelling from Iran to the city of Quetta in Balochistan when unknown militants fired rockets at it in Hazar Gungi area in the outskirts of Quetta on Thursday The explosion killed at least 15 Shia pilgrims and injured 25 others, all of whom were immediately transferred to a local hospital. The death toll may rise further as many of the injured are said to be in critical condition.…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) - A powerful remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus killed at least 11 people including nine Shiite pilgrims in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest on Thursday, police said. The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta city, the capital of the oil and gas rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan. "A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — A leading Islamic foundation in Pakistan has launched a program to provide shelter, food and education to thousands of children who have lost their parents in natural calamities in the south Asian Muslim country. "We had been planning to launch this project for last five years but because of some unavoidable reasons we could not do that," Ejazullah Khan, the national director of Al-Khidmat Foundation told OnIslam.net. "We are thankful to Allah who has enabled…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — Mohammad Fahim Khan and three other men had been kidnapped and killed and their bodies were dumped in a car, a police officer said. Fahim Khan was leading a ‘Lashkar’ or militia to fight the Pakistani Taliban in his Badabher area, near Darra Adam Khel tribal region. He had survived at least four Taliban’s attacks including suicide bombings. In a recent attack on June 12, Fahim escaped unhurt in a suicide attack near Peshawar. Two…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — Three-in-four Pakistanis consider the United States an enemy country, a new survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Global Attitudes Project indicates. The Pew survey, which was published on its website on Wednesday, said that last year 69 percent used to hate the US but in 2012 the figure jumped to 74 percent. The survey also showed an exceptionally low regard for US President Barack Obama among Pakistanis. They believe Obama is as bad a leader…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — At least 15 Shia pilgrims have been killed and dozens injured in a rocket attack on a bus in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern Balochistan Province, Press TV reports. The bus, carrying 40 Shia pilgrims, was travelling from Iran to the city of Quetta in Balochistan when unknown militants fired rockets at it in Hazar Gungi area in the outskirts of Quetta on Thursday The explosion killed at least 15 Shia pilgrims and injured 25 others, all…

SHAFAQNA (Shia News Association) — According to reports, Shiite association of Shabab ul Momineen’s member Dr. Mohammed Ali was shot dead by members of the banned extremist political organisation SSP. The doctor Mohammed Ali s/o Qudrat ullah Khan was shot infront of his Clinic (People’s Dispensary Chakwara) in Kharadar, Karachi. The 62 year old’s body has been shifted to the Civil Hospital for postmortem. According to the Doctor’s report, the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to Ali’s…