Al-Aqsa Mosque reopens to worshippers for 1st Friday prayers after weeks-long closure

Thousands of Palestinian worshippers gathered at Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first Friday prayers after a closure that lasted more than five weeks. Israel announced on Wednesday that it would reopen Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in occupied East Jerusalem starting Thursday morning, allowing access for the first time in 40 days […]

Partition memories resurface as 3 Sikh pilgrims revisit Pakistan after decades for Baisakhi festival

Hundreds of Sikh pilgrims arriving from India at the Wagah border on Friday included three elderly men whose journey carried memories spanning more than eight decades, as they returned to their birthplace in Pakistan for the first time since the 1947 partition. Baba Karnail Singh, Baba Sardar Shobaik Singh and Sardar Harbans Singh were among […]