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Bollywood could finally be coming to Pakistan. Islamabad is consider a proposal to lift a 40 year ban on movies from India. Al Jazaeera’s Kamal Hyder reports.

In the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar lawyers have continued to protest against the state of emergency imposed by General Pervez Musharraf. Kamal Hyder reports.

The elections may be a done deal but no party has scored even a simple majority to form a govt in NWFP.

Bordering Afghanistan and considered by many as the frontline province in the so called war on terror.

The religious parties who swept the polls in the last elections after the US led invasion of Afghanistan have suffered a major set back due to a split in the religious party’s alliance .

Now the people of the frontier have given what is considered a split mandate with the Awami national Party the most number if seats.

Religion and politics in Pakistan are closely linked. With upcoming parliamentary elections, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder goes to Peshawar to see how Islamic orientated parties have found a particularly strong foothold.

A suicide bomber in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed at least 22 people, nearly all of them police officers. Kamal Hyder has this report.