The crowd, including women wearing black armbands to protest Saturday`s attacks, also demanded protection for the minority community in the small town of Sangla Hill.
"They held their Sunday mass and dispersed peacefully," police officer Mohammad Asghar told AFP. A police contingent cordoned off th

, linking the deadly blasts to the war in Iraq and calling Amman the "backyard garden" for U.S. operations. Police continued a broad security lockdown and authorities sent DNA samples for testing to identify the attackers. Land borders were reopened after being closed for nearly 12 hours.
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New Delhi, Nov. 8: The All-India Christian Council has sought withdrawal of, or suitable amendments to, the proposed Foreign Con tribution (Management and Control) Bill 2005, as the bill in its present form would violate the constitu tional protection provided for freedom of religion. The organisati

Federal police said Tuesday they searched a home in the southwest Sydney suburb of Revesby Tuesday night as part of the sweep begun before dawn.
A spokesman would not comment on a radio report that a woman and two children had been taken from the house and that a second home in a nearby suburb was

Throughout the four weeks since the October 8 disaster aid officials have repeatedly warned of a second wave of deaths when the Himalayan winter begins, adding to the current toll of more than 73,000.
"We have to focus now on the next big problem which will be heating," Jan Vandemoortele, the Unite

NEW DELHI, Nov 2: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today supported the fight against terrorism but cautioned against branding the entire Muslim community as militant.
"I take appropriate action when I see malaria-carrying mosquitoes because they are not very friendly," the Dalai Lama said w

"Security forces had an encounter when they raided a house in Quetta on Tuesday. They captured a foreigner and killed another and they may be Al-Qaeda operatives," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told AFP.
"Their identification is not confirmed."
Intelligence agencies are trying to establish if

ABBOTTABAD: A Pakistan Army team rescued a man after 21 days from under the rubble of a collapsed house in remote area of district Battagram, an official of Ayub Teaching Hospital said on Monday. On October 29 the army team dug out a man from the debris in Gangwal village of teshil Allai in Battagra

The £4 million development of the Church of the Epiphany, which will not have a spire or free-standing cross, will begin early next year on land donated by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
The Most Rev Clive Handford, the Nicosia-based Anglican Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf,

"It is a positive development, it will help people affected by the earthquake on both sides," said political analyst Hasan Askari. "It will also improve the goodwill between the two countries and Kashmiris on both sides."
India and Pakistan agreed late Saturday to an unprecedented opening of the he

Unidentified assailants attacked a group of girls from a private Christian school in the tense province of Central Sulawesi, beheading three and seriously wounding another. Police said that one of the heads was left in front of a new Christian church and the others near a police station.
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The world has one last chance to give cash for Pakistan`s quake victims or else the United Nations will have to stop its vital helicopter flights and scale down food deliveries, aid officials said.
"We need the cash to keep the helicopters flying," UN humanitarian coordinator for

BALAKOT, Oct 29 (APP): Saif-ul-Islam Al-Gaddafi, Chairman of Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Association and son of Libyan Leader, Colonel Muamar Al-Gaddafi laid the foundation stone of a model village here on Saturday.
The Libyan dignitary is currently on a three-day visit to Pakistan

in the earthquake-afflicted areas of NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in view of severe cold in the region, officials said Friday.
They discussed this week's Geneva conference in the context of international response to Pakistan's worst natural disaster and also exchanged views on the next month's d

Secretary to the Bishop of Siloam Biblical Christian Churches of Pakistan called on the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Shuakat Aziz at Prime Minster's House, Islamabad. Bishop Nasir expressed "Mutual Condolence" to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Shuakat Aziz. Bishop Nasir told the Prime Ministe