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Ban Asian marriages of cousins, says MP By Marco Giannangeli (Filed: 16/11/2005) Marriages between cousins should be banned after research showed alarming rates in defective births among Asian communities in Britain, a Labour MP said last night. The report, commissioned by Ann Cryer, revealed that the Pakistani community accounted for 30 per cent of all births with recessive disorders, despite representing 3.4 per cent of the birth rate nationwide. "We address problems of smoking, drinking, obesity and we say it's a public health issue, therefore we have to get involved with persuading people to adopt a different lifestyle," the MP...

The London based Al Hayat daily reported Thursday that United States forces may have captured Osama Bin Laden.The newspaper quoted Pakastani military sources as saying Osama Bin Laden could have been one of the Al Qaeda leaders siezed by the United States.

100 'Pakistani Nationals' have been rounded up and are being put on a plane to be sent out of the country. breaking...

Pakistani Tribesmen Hid Hundreds of Fleeing Al Qaeda Fri Aug 23,12:42 PM ET KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two Pakistani tribesmen have confessed to sheltering hundreds of foreign members of Osama bin Laden 's al Qaeda network and their relatives who fled the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan , investigators said on Friday. The Pakistani investigators, who did not want to be identified, said the men from the Sarki Khel tribe told them militants arrived in October after the U.S. bombing began. They said hundreds of militants were sheltered in South Waziristan, a northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan. The tribesman told...