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Its prayer halls can hold 100,000 worshippers, while the surrounding porticoes and the courtyard up to 200,000 more. [47] [48] Faizan-e-Madinah: Karachi, Sindh: 20,000: 10,000 m 2 (110,000 sq ft) 1999 A Mosque and education center run by Dawat-e-Islami. One of the largest mosques in Pakistan covering over 10,000 m 2 with a capacity of over 20,000.
A subset of Shia in Pakistan are the Hazara ethnic group—which are distinct from other Shi’a due to their language and facial features. Most Hazaras live in Afghanistan, but Pakistan also hosts between 650,000 and 900,000 – and around 500,000 live in the city of Quetta.
On 4 July 2003, 53 Hazara Shias were killed and at least 65 others were injured when a mosque was attacked during the Friday prayer in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. [1] [2] When hundreds of worshipers were offering Friday prayer, three armed men entered the Asna Ashari Hazara Imambargah and started shooting and throwing hand grenades and one suicide bomber blew himself up - which left 53 dead ...
Zikris live primarily in Pakistani Balochistan, concentrated in the southern coast of Makran, the Lasbela District, and Quetta. [2] They are a majority in the Gwadar District of Makran in Balochistan. [16] [34] There are sizable communities of Zikris in Pakistan's Sindh province and Karachi, [2] especially in the economically disadvantaged ...
The September 2010 Quetta bombing occurred on 3 September 2010 in Quetta, Pakistan. [2] At least 73 people were killed and 206 injured when a bomb exploded in a Quds Day procession which Shias were carrying out to express solidarity with Palestinians.
Pakistan means "land of the pure" and the Shia have no right to live in this country. We have the edict and signatures of revered scholars, declaring the Shia infidels. Just as our fighters have waged a successful jihad against the Shia Hazara in Afghanistan, our mission in Pakistan is the abolition of this impure sect and its followers from ...
On the same day, three Hazara community members were shot dead in Pakistan's southwestern town of Quetta. [100] Sunni extremists, aligned with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, yearly are killing Shia civilians by the hundreds in Pakistan. The sole purpose of some terrorist groups such as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is to cleanse Pakistan of Shia Muslims.
Adhān, Arabic for 'announcement', from the root adhina, meaning 'to listen, to hear, be informed about', is variously transliterated in different cultures. [1] [2]It is commonly written as athan, or adhane (in French), [1] azan in Iran and south Asia (in Persian, Dari, Pashto, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Punjabi), adzan in Southeast Asia (Indonesian and Malaysian), and ezan in Turkish, Bosnian ...