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US imposes sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile program...

  Washington:The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program. The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted. The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network of companies based in the United Arab Emirates and China were added to a US blacklist. The network “obfuscated the end user of sensitive goods for missile...

Daesh kidnaps 400 civilians in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr: R...

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Damascus:Daesh Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped at least 400 civilians, including women and children, in an assault on Syria’s eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, a monitoring group says. Following its Saturday attack on Dayr al-Zawr, Daesh “abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the al-Baghaliyeh neighborhood it captured, and adjacent areas in the northwest of the city,” the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Sunday. Rami Abdel Rahman, the SOHR director, added...

Sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program lifted...

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Viena:Sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are lifted following confirmation of Tehran’s commitment to​ the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the announcement during a joint press conference in Vienna on Saturday (17th January 2016) Mogherini read out a statement in English which was subsequently read out by Zarif in Persian. “As...

Pakistani forces detain 42 Daesh-linked suspects in Punjab: ...

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Islamabad”Pakistani counter-terrorism forces have arrested more than 40 militant suspects with alleged links to the Daesh terrorist group across the country’s eastern province of Punjab. Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah confirmed on Monday that at least 42 suspects were detained after police commandos from the counter-terrorism department raided their hideouts in four Punjab cities over the weekend. “The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said...

Lucknow Hindu, Shia, Sunni religious leaders urge intl. sanc...

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Lucknow:Demanding international sanctions against Saudi Arabia for execution of leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, thousands of Shias in Lucknow staged a massive protest on Sunday. The Grand rally was organized under the banner of the Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind (MUH), an all India organization of Shia clerics, the protest also saw participation of some Sunni Muslims and Hindu religious leaders including Sunni Sufi leader Maulana Hasnain and Acharya Pramod Krishnan. Led by Shia cleric Maulana...

Top Sunni cleric Molvi Salamai denounces Al-Nimr execution...

Tehran:The representative of Sistan and Baluchistan in the Assembly of Experts, Molavi Nazir Ahmad Salami in an interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) underscored, “Inviting to good, enjoining what is right and forbidding the wrong among Muslims was the mission of religious clerics and does not no Shiites and Sunnis”.Wilayat Times reports; “After writing so many letters to Saudi state with this connection, we expect Saudi rulers do not perpetrate such measure,” underlined Molavi Nazir Ahmad...

Execution of Sheikh Nimr,clear depiction of Saudi frustratio...

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Srinagar:Termed the Sheikh Nimr’s brutal execution as the clear depiction of Saudi frustration on their continuous failures in silencing the herald of resistance against Zionist-Saudi-American imperialistic and hegemonic nexus,Joint Secretary of Majlid Itehad e Milat,Moulana Ghulam Ali Guzar Said that this axis of evil stands utterly defeated in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Pakistan and other countries.
While talking to Wilayat Times,Moulana Ghulam Ali said that This frustration...

Al-Saud are exporter, supporter and financer of terrorism in...

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Srinagar:President All J&K Shia Association & State Minister for Youth Services and Sports Molvi Imran Raza Ansari has condemned in strong words the state murder of Sheikh Ayatollah Baqir Nimr al Nimr by “tyrant regime of Saud family, the exporter, supporter and financer of terrorism in world.” In a statement to Wilayat Times,Molvi Imran Ansari said that “Nimr’s only crime was peaceful protest against tyrant rule of Saudi family regime devoid of any respect for human rights. “This...

Saudi-backed militants fire shells at aid convoy in Yemen...

Sanna:Saudi-backed militants have fired shells at a humanitarian aid convoy in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ta’izz.
A civilian was injured during the attack, which occurred in the Dahi district of Ta’izz on Monday, Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported. The militants also blocked an aid convoy that was heading toward the Habil Salman district of the province. The report also said that Saudi-backed snipers have recently targeted a number of Yemeni civilians in Ta’izz, including...

Daesh executes 5 ‘British spies’ in Syria...

Damascus:The Daesh Takfiri group has released a new video purportedly showing execution of five “British spies” in Syria, with the terrorists calling Prime Minister David Cameron an “imbecile.” The 10-minute video, posted online, showed the five men in orange jumpsuits introducing themselves in Arabic and “confessing” to spying for the United Kingdom by filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Syria’s northern city of al-Raqqah, the Takfiris’ de facto capital. After...