03 January 2007
Forty-two new Islamic seminaries came up in Pakistan's capital last year, a development the government hopes would promote President Pervez... Read more
Topic: Pakistan
14 October 2006
Pakistan has set up a National Council for Promotion of Sufism to project its soft power and improve its image... Read more
28 December 2005
The central union of Islamic seminaries' organisations in Pakistan Wednesday said it would not expel any foreign student from its... Read more
03 April 2004
Religious scholars in Pakistan are up in arms at the government's moves to reduce references to jehad or holy war... Read more
15 July 2003
President Pervez Musharraf has ordered a halt to the mushrooming of madrassas and mosques in the Pakistani capital in what... Read more
05 May 2003
Religious seminaries, or madrassas, in Pakistan have seen the largest growth since the country's independence to touch 27 times their... Read more
27 December 2002
Two masked assailants attacked a small Pakistani Protestant chapel service in northern Punjab on Christmas night, killing three young girls... Read more