1.   It has massacred entire villages of men, women and children and declared women who do not wear traditional Muslim veils fit targets for assassination.

2.   A dozen women clad in Muslim veils and scarves sat in the public gallery listening raptly to the lurid testimony, some of them shaking their heads in disbelief.

3.   She wears Western clothes in public, without the traditional Muslim veil, which is worn by almost all women in the Gulf region.

4.   University students and working women do not wear burqas, or Muslim veils, and Western dresses are not uncommon.

5.   Local police officer Khalid Gulzar denied the allegations but acknowledged that thesguised in a traditional Muslim veil.