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NEW DELHI: A group of clerics has issued a fatwa (religious edict) against Indian idol junior singer Nahid Afrin, asking her to refrain from performing in public. According to Hindustan Times, the fatwa has been issued against her…

KARACHI: Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, Karachi's sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for a last chance at life. There, Dr. Adeeb Rizvi provides free medical care to hundreds of…

TEHRAN: Iran's new parliament will have more women than clerics when its members are sworn in next month, a first in the Islamic republic and a sign of the country's evolving politics.

ISTANBUL: Engaged couples should refrain from flirting, holding hands and "other behaviours that are not endorsed by Islam," Turkey's religious affairs agency declared Monday.

KARACHI: The Government of Sindh has imposed a ban on the movement of 155 clerics for 60 days in order to maintain security during the month of Muharram, ARY News reported.

KABUL: Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning the…

JAKARTA: Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body threatened Friday to issue a fatwa against the sale of condoms following reports that the contraceptives were being sold together with chocolate to mark Valentine's Day.

ISLAMABAD: The IG Islamabad Police, Tahir Alam Khan has instructed the officials to arrest the clerics involved in the breach of the Loudspeaker Act, ARY News reported.