MNA Ministry of Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony of Pakistan is to apply a new policy to facilitate commute of the countrys pilgrim to Iran and then to Iraq and Syria before October, 2019, i.e. the beginning of Muslim calendar months of Safar and Muharrem. The announcement was made in a Friday meeting with the presence of Noor-ul-Haq Qadri,...

By AFP TEHRAN Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday appealed for the release of 48 of its citizens held hostage by rebels in Syria and threatened with execution one by one unless Syria's army withdraws from an area in Damascus province. The statement, relayed by the official news agency IRNA, described the captives as "pilgrims." The Syrian ...

(Reuters) - A car bomb exploded on Sunday near a convoy of buses taking Pakistani Shia pilgrims toIran, killing 20 people and wounding 24, officials said, the latest attack on the minority sect. Witnesses said the blast occurred as the three buses were overtaking a car about 60 km (35 miles) west of Quetta, capital of sparsely populated Baluchistan ...

By The Daily Star BEIRUT: Rebel fighters will execute dozens of Iranians they kidnapped in August unless Syria's army withdraws from the embattled Eastern Ghuta area of Damascus province, a rebel commander said on Friday. "We gave the regime 48 hours starting yesterday to withdraw completely from the Eastern Ghuta area," Abul Wafa, commander ...

Irans deputy foreign minister says abductors of the Iranian pilgrims kidnapped in Syria by the so-called Free Syrian Army have not made any formal request to the Islamic Republics government. We have made every effort to secure their release, and the abductors have not made any request, Hossein Amir Abdullahian said on Wednesday. Amir Abdullahian ...