International conference of the Deoband school of Islam

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Tens of thousands of Muslims met in Peshawar, Pakistan for an international conference which included a video appeal from Osama bin Laden to support the Taliban government in Afghanistan. Also in the programme: euthanasia passes into law in the Netherlands; women in Benin hand in their surgical knives in a bid to halt female circumcision; orthodox monks in Greece step-up their campaign against the first visit by a Pope in over a thousand years.