Shias protest against target killing and genocide of Shiite Muslims across Pakistan during a demonstration arranged by Shia Ulema Council at M.A Jinnah Road in Karachi on December 14, 2012. Instead of ...

On August 16, 2012, gunmen stopped a passenger bus in Mansehra, pulled 20 Shia Muslims off and killed them in cold blood. This is the third incident of targeted killing against the Shia community in ...

Rallies targeting the Shia Muslims of Pakistan were orchestrated on successive days in Karachi over the past weekend. Demonstrators numbering in the tens of thousands — at least 30,000 according to ...

Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has announced the deployment of more than 16,000 security forces across Pakistan in a bid to prevent sectarian violence during the Shi'ite holy month of ...

Pakistan's northwest has been the scene of sporadic bursts of sectarian violence for decades. In the latest flareup, over 80 people were killed in clashes in the Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

(CNN) — The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar that killed at least 61 people and injured another 196. A ...

Two high profile killings over the weekend highlight a growing problem that attracts little media attention in the West: attacks on Pakistan’s Shia minority by Sunni militants. On Saturday, gunmen in ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered for a sit-in protest in the town of Parachinar, Pakistan, on June 29 to demand better security a week after a double bombing in a market killed 75 people. The ...

Pakistan security forces were on high alert as the minority Shia population prepared to commemorate the annual Muslim festival Ashura at sunset on Wednesday after a series of clashes with Taliban left ...

The compound of a court in Mirpur city of Pakistan-administered Kashmir became a battleground after a Shia Muslim accused of blasphemy was granted bail. Protesters including lawyers and madrasa ...