Survivors allege the attackers asked victims about their religion. Some claim victims were forced to recite the Kalima - a sacred Islamic expression of faith - and were shot dead if they failed.

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 ...

With a gun held against his head by one of the terrorists, the 58-year-old Bengali Brahmin was asked to recite the first Kalima ‘La ilaha ill Allah Muhammadur-Rasul Allah' (Nothing worshipped is ...

They told security forces that terrorists singled out tourists of a certain faith, asked men to recite 'Kalima' — a formal declaration of faith — and shot them dead. One terrorist approached a ...

The assistant professor added he too began reciting Kalima. "Moments later, one of the terrorists, dressed in camouflaged fatigues, walked towards us and shot the person lying next to me in the ...

The professor said he started reciting the “Kalima” instinctively after hearing murmurs from people sleeping under a tree alongside him. “Instinctively, I too began to recite it. Moments ...

Pahalgam terror attack: An Assam university professor credited his survival during the April 22 terror attack in Kashmir, Pahalgam, to a desperate act of instinct. He ...

In a chilling turn of events, the armed assailants reportedly confronted the family at gunpoint, demanding they recite the Kalima, an Islamic declaration of faith. The family believes that their ...

Two friends from Pune, in their late 50s, were excited for their trip to Jammu and Kashmir. Little did they know that this visit would turn into a lifelong grief for their families. Archana ...

Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian pastor and theologian and founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, concurred that current Israeli restrictions are among the toughest.

“He told us to lie down and just said something like ‘Kalima’ (declaration of faith). We didn’t know how to respond. We just kept saying in Hindi that we didn’t know.” Without ...