Fifty thousand Pakistanis have disappeared in Iraq after performing the Shiite religious pilgrimage during the Ashura season in Karbala, according to official Iraqi and Pakistani announcements.

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Ashura sees more blood donated than at any other ... But it continues in parts of Iraq, as well as among parts of the Shia communities of Bahrain and Turkey. In Lebanon as well, Hezbollah leader ...

For Shias, Ashura is a day of mourning which commemorates ... This has been the case in Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria. Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy ...

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Anti-government protests have erupted on a regular basis in Iraq in recent years. But these are the largest and bloodiest since the US-led invasion in 2003 that overthrew Saddam Hussein.

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Iraq's parliament has passed a bill criminalising same-sex relationships with jail terms of between 10 and 15 years. Transgender people could also be sent to prison for between one and three years ...

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