Pakistan Burqa

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  Afghanistan Girls' Football Team Flees To Pakistan

  Members of Afghanistan's national girls' football team fled across the border into Pakistan dressed in burqas, a month after the hardline Taliban swept back into power.

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  12 Killed As Taliban Disguised In Burqas Attack Agriculture Training Institute In Peshawar, Pakistan

  Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in all-enveloping burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture college in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least nine people and wounding 35, police and hospital officials said.

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  Taliban Terrorists In Burqas Attack College In Pakistan's Peshawar

  Pakistani Taliban gunmen, using the disguise of all-enveloping burquas, stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least five people, police said.

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  2 Women Unite To Take 'Honour' Out Of Killing In Pakistan

  So much divides two women who fought in the battle to take the "honour" out of killing in Pakistan. Naeema Kishwar shrouds herself in a burqa, showing only her eyes. She belongs to a political party that has been linked to the Taliban. And she comes from deeply conservative tribal lands where girls have been killed for going to school.

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  Kidnapped Pakistani Judge's Son Found Bound In Chains

  Pakistani soldiers rescued the kidnapped son of a senior judge from his Taliban captors on Tuesday, after finding him bound in chains with his mouth taped shut and wearing in an all-enveloping burqa to hide his identity, the army spokesman said.

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  Pak Islamic Body Says Full Face Veil Not Mandatory for Women

  In a significant ruling, a constitutional Islamic body in Pakistan has said that covering of face, hands and feet was not mandatory for women under Islamic laws.

• Taliban attack police in Pakistan, take hostages

  Pakistani Taliban disguised in burqas attacked an office of the security force's intelligence agency in the country's northwest on Monday, taking several hostages before police stormed the building and ended the siege, police said.

• Hundreds in Pakistan protest France's burqa ban

  Hundreds of Muslims staged a protest in Karachi on Sunday against a ban approved by France's lower house of parliament on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils.The bill passed on Tuesday bans face-covering veils everywhere that can be considered public space and is seen as part of a determined effort to define and protect French values.It has disconcer...