KARACHI: Ghaffar Zikri alias Saeen - the last commander of the third generation of Lyari's notorious gangs - was killed in a police encounter on Thursday. The ...

QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead a spiritual leader of the Zikri community in Kech district on Friday. Syed Mullah Akhtar Mullai was targeted by gunmen riding a motorcycle in Balgather Gadagi area, according ...

QUETTA, Pakistan—Separatists in the southwestern province of Balochistan blame government security forces for an August 28 attack in the Awaran district that left six dead and seven injured. Witnesses ...

QUETTA, Pakistan, June 18 (News Lens Pakistan) --Graffiti glorifying the Islamic State in southwestern Pakistan has sparked fear within the tiny 500-year-old Zikri Muslim sect, which has been targeted ...

KARACHI: One of the main characters of Lyari gang warfare, Ghaffar Zikri, who had eluded law enforcers for 18 years, was gunned down with a close aide in a joint operation carried out by police and ...

Islamabad: At least six worshippers of a minority Islamic sect have been shot dead and eight others injured by unknown gunmen at a shrine in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province, officials said ...

The persecution of minorities, especially the Zikri sect, in Balochistan province is not a new phenomenon. Hundreds of years ago, those who resisted conversion to Islam were killed. The violence was ...

KARACHI An early Saturday morning police assault on an 'armed picket' in Ali Muhammad Mohalla of Lyari killed a teenage brother of Ghaffar Zikri — the alleged ringleader of one of the gangs suspected ...

(Northbrook, Ill.) - Today Northbrook Symphony announced Music Director Lawrence Rapchak's resignation after 17 devoted years with the organization to pursue new opportunities in communicating and ...