Six years have passed since Saudi authorities have executed top dissident Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr.

Pakistan’s flag carrier PIA resumes direct flights to Iran’s Mashhad after a five-year halt.

The Afghan capital Kabul has hosted a gathering during which leaders from the Taliban and popular religious figures, mostly from the Shia community, came together and called for national solidarity in the war-torn country.

Rights groups and families of missing people held a press conference in Karachi to once again voice their grave concern over the non-recovery of their loved ones, slamming the government for its lack of seriousness in their recovery.

Saudi authorities execute a young man from the Shia-populated Qatif region over alleged terror activities.

Every year millions of Muslims across the planet celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Sunni and Shia denominations celebrate this event on two different dates within the same week.

A senior political analyst says the fledgling Taliban government is not in a strong position to stop criminal acts and terrorist attacks against Shia Muslims in Afghanistan.

Kandahar mosque blast was the deadliest incident since the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August. It was the second week in a row that a Shia mosque came under an attack claimed by Daesh terrorist group.

Global condemnations continue to pour in after terrorist bombers attacked a Shia mosque in southern Afghanistan and killed dozens of worshipers attending Friday prayers.

Processions and religious gatherings have been held in Indian-controlled Kashmir to mark the passing anniversary of the prophet of Islam and his grandson and second Shia Imam, Hassan al-Mujtaba.