Pakistan bans religious meetings
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Public religious meetings are banned in Pakistan after Thursday's bomb explosion in Multan kills at least 40 people.
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The decision by Pakistan's president to stay on as military chief has angered leading politicians of the religious right.
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Former premier Benazir Bhutto Monday condemned a ban on large rallies in the run-up to general elections proposed by the government after last week's deadly suicide attack on her convoy.
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Concealing women in the home is a backward view of Islam, the leader of Pakistan tells the BBC.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf met top officials Monday to consider an assault on Islamic militants holed up inside a mosque, as clerics made a last-ditch bid to end the week-long siege peacefully.
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Lawyers boycott courts in Pakistan after President Musharraf suspends the country's chief justice.
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Pakistani authorities are considering a ban on political processions in the run-up to a general election after a bomb attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed 139 people.
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A Muslim extremist banned from his mosque has been leading prayers at a London hospital, the BBC learns.
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NEW YORK: Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any talks regarding the re-adjustment of the Line of Control in Kashmir.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday withdrew new curbs on media covering Pakistan's growing political crisis, backing down after a week of nationwide protests by journalists and opposition parties.
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Hiding women away in the home hidden behind veils is a backward view of Islam, President Musharraf of Pakistan has said during a visit to Britain.
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President Musharraf last week banned the killing of females accused of 'dishonoring' their families.
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A religious council last month condemned a treatise on how Muslims can integrate into non-Islamic nations.
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Islamic extremism in Britain has created communities that are "no-go areas" for non-Muslims, a Pakistani-born Church of England bishop said in The Sunday Telegraph. Michael Nazir-Ali, the bishop of Rochester, told the newspaper that Britain's policies of multiculturalism have created separate Muslim communities that fail to integrate into mainstream society. "There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into `no-go' areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability," said Nazir-Ali. Read more
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf vowed to eradicate extremism "from every nook and corner of the country" on Thursday after a bloody confrontation at an Islamabad mosque in which at least 105 people died.
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Police in the Irish Republic will meet Sikh leaders after a trainee officer was banned from wearing the turban on duty.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court blocks a  bill setting up a department to enforce Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province.