ISLAMABAD: The government has constituted a ‘National Ulema and Mashaikh Council’. The federal minister for religious affairs will be chairman of the council and the minister of state, the religious ...

KARACHI: The escalating feud among Deobandi and Barelvi Sunni clerics may open up yet another dangerous front of sectarian violence. “If they can burn my effigy, they can also kill me,” says a worried ...

Police have begun circulating multi-page forms at the local level seeking granular details about mosques, including their ...

A recent conference in Kala Shah Kaku, held after the merger of an Ahle Hadith faction with Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith, was significant on many counts After a gap of about 10 years, Markazi Jamiat ...

Jammu and Kashmir Police has launched a data-gathering exercise to compile detailed information on mosques and madrassas ...

The religious seminaries, which have been mushrooming in the capital since 80s, may soon outnumber the government-run educational institutes. A recent survey by the police of the number of registered ...

Ahl-e Hadith, meaning the people of hadith, is a religious movement that emerged in northern India in the mid-nineteenth century. They regard the Quran, sunnah, and hadith as the sole sources of ...

A religious debate between two Islamic sects Sunnis and Ahle Hadees in the border district of Kutch has taken the form of a legal dispute and the issue has reached the Gujarat High Court. AHMEDABAD: A ...