In making Hindu pilgrims recite the Kalima — a Muslim declaration of faith — to identify and then execute non-Muslims, the attackers were not just engaging in violence, they were staging an ...

Terrorists from across the border targeted innocent tourists and killed 26 of them, all men. The armed attackers asked them to recite the Islamic Kalima, apparently to check if they were Muslims or ...

Ramachandran was enjoying a trek with his daughter and her eight-year-old sons when the ultras gunned down him and 25 others for not knowing Kalima, phrases used to express core Islamic beliefs.

A gun-toting man emerged and shouted at people to lie down. He came near us and said something like a kalima (a declaration of faith). Within seconds, the terrorist gunned down my father. While I was ...

A professor from Assam narrowly escaped the terrorists' bullets in Jammu Kashmir's Pahalgam because he was able to recite the Kalima, the sacred Islamic verses. The ...

A damaged food shack is pictured at the site of a suspected militant attack on tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, April 24, 2025. (Photo source: PTI) For many ...

The Kalma, or Kalima, refers to six foundational declarations in Islam that affirm core beliefs and spiritual principles. Reciting them deepens one’s faith, strengthens the connection with Allah, and ...

Some of the victims of the Pahalgam horror were asked by the terrorists to recite an Islamic verse called Kalma or Kalima to prove their Muslim identity. Those who failed were shot. At that hour, ...

Auckland will host one of the nation’s largest dawn services at the War Memorial Museum in Parnell. The parade is set to begin at 5.45 am, with the official service commencing at 6.00 am at the Court ...

Tourists in Pahalgam recount near-death experiences following a recent terror attack, highlighting how minor alterations in their plans inadvertently saved them. A ...

The suddenness of the attack stunned the family. The professor recounted seeing a man being shot dead right in front of him and how he started reciting the ‘kalima’ in an act of herd mentality. “My ...

A tourist from Assam who survived the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, shared how he managed to escape without any injuries, even after coming ...