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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed new legislation Friday allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term...

Pakistan's Senate Thursday approved a reformed rape law that allows rape cases to be tried in either secular or Islamic courts, reduces the evidentiary burden necessary for conviction, and substitutes a fine and five-year prison term for...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has overturned a ruling by a Sharia court for the first time by commuting the sentence of a man whom the court assigned the death penalty. Mirza Tahir Hussain...

Pakistan's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, passed the 2006 Protection of Women Bill Wednesday, transferring rape case jurisdiction from religious Sharia courts to civil courts. The bill also classifies rape under...

Amnesty International accused Pakistan Friday of committing numerous human rights violations in support of the US-led "war on terror," including arresting terror suspects and holding them in secret locations until they can be sold...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called for a ban on the "defamation of Islam" during his speech at the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Citing feelings in the Muslim...

Indian authorities arrested three men Friday in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed over 180 people . The three suspects arrested by authorities - Khaleel Aziz Sheikh, Kamal Ahmed Ansari...

The 12th General Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) ended Tuesday with members of Arab states calling on the United Nations to adopt a resolution which bans offenses against religion, including Islam....

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he will lobby the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to make blasphemy an internationally-recognized criminal offense in the wake of controversy...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has complained to Washington that the United States violated its sovereignty in a recent air strike on a village near the Afghanistan border. The failed January 13 attack ...