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Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'   Relations between the sexes outside marriage is against the law Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported. They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism. Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced...

Islamabad, Nov 13 (PTI) Pakistan's provincial assembly today passed a controversial law to set up a Taliban-style police system to promote virtue and eliminate vice, a move dubbed by the opposition parties as "unconstitutional." The Islamic alliance government in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) approved the Hisba (accountability) Bill which establishes a unit led by an Islamic cleric to eliminate vice with a separate police force to implement its orders. The bill was presented by the six-party religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in the NWFP provincial Assembly and was ratified by a majority. It was tabled in the house by...