More British Muslims will be branded extremists under new code.

The Pakistan government has signed a deal with the pro taliban Maulana Sufi Mohammad to enforce Islamic laws in a northwestern region. The deal followed talks between ministers in the troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a local militant leader, Sufi Mohammad, on formalising the implementation of Islamic law. The deal will cover Pakistan’s Malakand area, one of the districts of NWFP, which includes the Swat valley, and home to around three million of the estimated 20 million people who live in the northwest province.
Swat was a jewel in the …

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Friday declared nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan a free man, five years after he was effectively put under house arrest for allegedly operating a proliferation network. The chief justice of the IHC, Sardar Mohammad Aslam, made the decision after a closed session with lawyers for the government and Dr Khan — revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the country’s atomic bomb. ‘The petitioner is declared a free citizen and writ petition is disposed of,’ said a written order issued by the court.
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George W Bush is back in Dallas after moving out of White House and he did not even have to wait for a job offer.
Elliott’s Hardware published an open letter to former President George W. Bush on Thursday, inviting him to apply for a store greeter position now that he’s becoming a Dallas resident again. The tongue-in-cheek letter to Bush from Kyle R. Walters, president and chief executive of Elliott’s, appeared in The Dallas Morning News and its commuter-oriented sister publication, Quick. The ad showcasing the letter was accompanied with …