It is improper,” said the clerk at the federal ministry for works in Islamabad. Critics say the government’s bid to make Islamic law supreme has heightened religious feelings and increased intolerance.. Last month, Sunni gunmen killed 17 worshippers at a Shia mosque, sparking a spate of tit-for-tat murders.The government has instituted special anti-terrorism courts but [...]

Instead, claimants are given a set of tests (11 physical and one psychiatric) to determine if they are fit for work.If claimants satisfy any three of these physical tests, or the one mental health test, they will qualify for monthly income replacement payment. You would receive a cash lump sum if you had a heart [...]

Rather than playing a serious script for laughs, Saunders turned out to be the most sensible thing in it. Her acting is often trumpeted, but she excelled herself as the confused, frightened woman admitting her virginity to a man 13 years her junior. If the film revealed little of Stanhope’s tale, it revealed more of [...]

How many more times am I expected to prove myself? I had no idea I would be left out; there never seemed to be any indication that I would not be part of Carel’s plans. I’m stunned and emotional.”Wiese is now likely to captain the Gauteng provincial side against the Lions at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, [...]

a new kind of loving, new kind of laughing, a new kind of God.”New future, new dawn, old jokes The humour is not only in the words, it is in the gestures. An old man mutters about it being “better to be a coward for a second than dead for a lifetime” and then launches [...]

For tickets, ring Margaret Manley (0171-590 4373) or buy a ticket on the door at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, Camden Town, London NW1.. After the project with Zegna, PJ Kim-Warren says, “I’d be happy to do some work with them, but I don’t want to build up my hopes too much”.The RCA fashion show [...]

With the first Test at Edgbaston almost upon us, and with the Australians approaching the series in the sort of disarray we normally associate with England, the chances of him being in a good mood are about as much as seeing him smile at the English fielders during the course of this summer. Milton Bradley, [...]

But it is a great centre of clever people: 47 per cent of its employed people are engineers, executives, technicians or supervisors, and most of the rest are skilled; only 13 per cent of its workers are unskilled. Tokyo is an extraordinarily interesting city, but it will never be a holiday destination like Paris.Next, Paris [...]

But the books have been good for me, because it’s helped to change one or two perceptions about me and the team.”What, then, did he write about on the night after the Australians’ third successive one-day defeat? “I referred to the game, its turning points, my own performance, and the Lord’s lunch.” The Lord’s lunch? [...]

A city councillor, school officials and others have been arrested in a police sweep of what is being called the largest child pornography and prostitution ring in Spain in recent years. The panel’s six-week investigation found wide-ranging abuses, including one minister who diverted $7,500 (pounds 4,500) to pay for central heating at his house, and [...]