Talibanisation
Apr 10 2007, Pooja

A judicial body in Pakistan issued a fatwa against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar for posing in an ‘obscene manner’ with French paraglider pilots, asserted a top cleric.

Authorities have summoned the government to reprimand and discharge her from...

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