Can the political mainstreaming of ASWJ be successful by ignoring their mission to declare Pakistan a Sunni state and Shias as kafir? Sipah-e-Sahaba was founded in 1985 in a rural town of Jhang in ...

Islamabad: Two militants belonging to banned Sipah-e-Sahaba sectarian outfit were hanged today, as the Pakistan government pressed ahead with the execution of terrorists despite criticism by ...

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said red warrants on Shahbaz Bhatti's killers have been issued, and they would be brought to book soon. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said red ...

Islamabad, May 10: Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, kidnapped by gunmen while campaigning for Pakistan's landmark elections, had received threats from the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The former leader of the Pakistani-based militant group Sipah-e-Sahaba was gunned down by unknown assailants near Karachi, local officials said. Gunmen on ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz responding to the allegations made by Pakistan Peoples Party on Tuesday, traced past nexus of the ruling party and its allies with banned militant outfits.

ISLAMABAD The government told the National Assembly on Tuesday it had asked provinces to keep a watch on the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba group, which is accused of fomenting recent violence in the Punjab ...

LAHORE: Ikramul Haq, an activist of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Central Jail in Lahore on Saturday morning for his involvement in a sectarian killing in 2001, ...

Pakistan should beware the normalization of militant groups. Masroor Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, son of the assassinated founder of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba—now legalized as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ)—has ...

At least three persons, a founding member of proscribed Sipah-e-Sahaba, were killed in different incidents of violence in the city on Sunday, police and rescue sources said. Maulana Rafiqul Khalil, 65 ...

Sipah-e-Sahaba - or the Army of Prophet Mohammad's companions - is a radical group from the majority Sunni sect of Islam. The group was founded by a Sunni cleric - Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi - in the ...