KARACHI: Ravi Shankar, aged 65, from the area of Chachro in Tharparkar district of Sindh reads four-verse poem, called rubaye, in the honour of Imam Hussain (RA) at Muharram gatherings across the ...

Today, conversations on religion, religious beliefs and notions even peripheral to religion are quickly associated with extremism, conservatism and terrorism. Therefore, I would like to begin with a ...

Aleem Maqbool joined pilgrims in Karbala for a rare look inside the mosque It is a privilege to do this work. I kept thinking that as we travelled along the road from Baghdad, to the city of Karbala.

The Battle of Karbala took place on Muharrum 10, in the year 81 of the Islamic calendar (A.D. October 10, 680) in Karbala, in present day Iraq. On one side of this highly uneven battle were a small ...