Pakistan among US list of âtop flouters of religious freedomâ
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WASHINGTON: The United States has called Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Eritrea âcountries of particular concernâ in an annual report on international religious freedom.
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WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia has failed to take substantial steps to promote religious tolerance, despite assurances from the Bush administration that the kingdom has made progress on reform, a US watchdog group said yesterday. A report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom called for new congressional scrutiny of Saudi Arabia's progress in implementing religious reform policies announced in ...
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asked Muslim scholars to help curb extremism by isolating religious schools which harbor terrorists as Pakistani security forces arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda linked Arab militant in a raid.
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The inclusion on a US terrorism watchlist of British singer-songwriter and peace activist Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is under review, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told AFP.
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In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of &quot;particularly severe violations&quot; of religious freedom.
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I have long claimed that the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan could not happen without support from elements within the current administration. My return to my country poses a threat to the forces of extremism that have thrived under a dictatorship. They want to stop the restoration of democracy at any price. They have exploited a poor, desperate, and powerless people and allowed extremists the right environment in which to flourish.
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The United States said it was concerned over safe havens being established by Islamic militants in northern Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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The US State Department listed North Korea, Myanmar, China, Iran, Sudan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Eritrea as nations that violate religious freedom in its yearly report on international religious freedom Wednesday.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A convention of Muslim clerics   organized by a charity that Washington has branded a terrorist   group called on Thursday for the removal of Pope Benedict for   fuelling enmity between faiths with his comments about Islam   last week.
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Uzbekistan accused the United States of practicing double standards on human rights issues Friday after Washington listed the former Soviet republic as one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
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KARACHI, Pakistan  - For all the breakthroughs  Pakistan made against al Qaeda and homegrown militant groups in  2004, its war on terror risks sliding into a morass due to  abuse of the court appeals process by lawyers for terror  convicts.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.
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LONDON, Oct 4 (IPS) - Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf's    visit to the United States and Britain has drawn new focus on  human   rights abuses in the country.
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Religious and political leaders say that there is a crisis in Islam because too many fatwas are being issued.
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The State Department yesterday put Saudi Arabia on its blacklist of severe violators of religious freedom for the first time, opening the door to US sanctions.
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WASHINGTON -- US efforts to win over the world's Muslims via news broadcasts, cultural exchanges, and other initiatives to explain American policies to skeptical audiences abroad are uncoordinated and underfunded, and risk sending contradictory messages about US intentions, according to a report by a bipartisan review panel appointed by President Bush.
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President Bush has a lot to talk about with his main Muslim ally in the war on terror, and at the top of the list is the U.S.-Pakistan alliance itself.