Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a star squash player with a promising international career. Born in Waziristan, a highly conservative region of Pakistan, she had to disguise herself as a boy when she took up the sport - and later received ominous threats for playing in shorts.

A United Nations human rights and counter-terrorism official said the Pakistani government made clear to him it does not consent to the strikes that it claims have killed at least 400 civilians.

Rare photo from 1981 of notorious Pakistani radical, Salamulla Tipu, hanging out from cockpit of plane

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is still developing its own halal standards and there is no official halal certification body in Pakistan. The countries with Muslims majority are the most obvious target market for halal products especially for meat and meat products.However, Muslims living outside the Sub,

She first appeared to the world as “Gul Makai”, Corn Flower; a writer for the BBC Urdu Blog. It was 2009, the Taliban were blowing up girl’s schools across Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

Matters of faith are, indeed, sensitive but does that justify the mob’s actions against the school?

We are collecting contributions for Malala Yousufzai, a young activist and blogger from SWAT, Pakistan who was shot on her way back from school on October 9.

Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez credited the team's progress in the World Twenty20 to his slow bowlers on Wednesday and said he was banking on them to spin them to victory again in Thursday's semi-final against hosts Sri Lanka.

A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 (£61,616) reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour said he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty" out of his own pocket.

A government spokesman condemned the remarks and said it was considering taking action against Mr Bilour.

The comments came a day after at least 20 people died in clashes between anti-film protesters and Pakistani police.

Friday's violence occurred in cities throughout Pakistan, with Karachi and Peshawar among the worst hit.

"I will pay whoever kills the makers of this video $100,000," the minister said. "If someone else makes other similar blasphemous material in the future, I will also pay his killers $100,000.

"I call upon these countries and say: Yes, freedom of expression is there, but you should make laws regarding people insulting our Prophet. And if you don't, then the future will be extremely dangerous."

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It is for this reason that, as an imam, I am deeply distressed to hear that a young Christian girl in Pakistan was accused by her angry Muslim neighbors of burning text from the Quran, Islam's holy book, in violation of the country's blasphemy laws.