In literary Mazar-i-Sharif means Respected Shrine but the city is known by tourists as city of the blue mosque which is located in the center of the city known as the Shrine of Hazrat Ali. (Qais Usyan/AFP/Getty Images) # An Afghan farmer works the land...

Traffic jams on the highway have eased and commerce is steadily picking up in Karkhano Market. “Women are not reluctant to come and shop now that Nato supply routes have been blocked,” says Muhammad Rafiq, an electronics dealer in the market. For now,...

Auqaf Depart­ment has alloca­ted around Rs7.1 millio­n for the three day urs. Amidst tight security, the three-day 968th annual urs of Hazrat Ali Hajveri, widely known as Data Ganj Bakhsh, began on Friday after Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif laid a...

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against an Oklahoma referendum banning the use of Islamic Sharia law in courts and said there's no evidence of such influence on US courts. A woman wearing a burqa stands in front of the Hazrat Ali, or...

His (Hazrat Ali) thoughts are of great relevance because he was also the son-in-law of the Prophet of Islam and a pioneering figure in the world of Sufism, Villayati said. This manuscript is one of the most original scholarly narratives in Islamic...