1.   The Afghan rebel groups demanded the immediate resignation of the Soviet-backed government of President Mohammed Najibullah and the creation of an Islamic state.

2.   Their aim is overthrow the government and turn Egypt into a purist Islamic state.

3.   Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council.

4.   An Islamic state on the Iranian model.

5.   An advocate of a Taliban-style Islamic state in Pakistan, Rehman was accused of taking someone carrying a rifle to an anti-American demonstration on Friday.

6.   An Islamic state, Pakistan has long supported Muslim militants who want to see Kashmir separate from Indian rule.

7.   And he said that Hezbollah no longer advocated transforming Lebanon into an Islamic state.

8.   And it is also because Ahmad says he wants to win an Islamic state through elections, not violence.

9.   And will its professed conversion to democracy only cover the old passions for a militant Islamic state in Lebanon?

10.   Basayev sought to oust the Russians and set up an independent Islamic state.