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The UN reveals alarming human rights abuses under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, with reports of gender-based violence, ...
Princess Zahra Aga Khan is the eldest child of His Late Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV (d. 2025), who was the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims from 1957 to 2025. Princess Zahra was ...
Clashes have erupted in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, this week. The violence, which initially involved local armed men from the Druze religious ...
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi praised on Monday the developmental and charitable projects sponsored by the Indian Bohra Community in Egypt, in collaboration with the Tahya Misr Fund, during a meeting ...
His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), passed away peacefully in Lisbon on 4 February ...
at least 50 Ismaili Shia men in Badakhshan province were forced by local Taliban authorities—especially from the Department of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice—to adopt Sunni Islam.
Bohras are Shia'a Muslims and a sub-sect of Shia'a Ismaili branch of Islam having its unique world view and doctrines, tenets and belief system under a tight centrally controlled social structure ...
"Jinnah's family traced its descent from Iran and reflected Shia, Sunni and Ismaili influences; some of the family names — Valji, Manbai and Nathoo — were even ‘akin to Hindu names’ (F. Jinnah 1987: ...
The Aga Khan is said to be the direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims ... I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim ...
KARACHI: A decade after the Safoora Goth bus attack that killed 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community, the counterterrorism official who arrested the terrorist gang expresses concern over the ...