Riyadh - Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed two Pakistani nationals for smuggling drugs, a statement by the interior ministry said.

Sana'a, Yemen  - Yemen has extradited to Saudi Arabia eight Saudis one week after Yemeni police uncovered suspected plots by al- Qaeda to carry out terrorist attacks in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a st

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has banned birthda

Jeddah, Aug 19: Saudi Arabia was interested in security, stability and sovereignty of Pakistan and had not, and will not, interfere in its internal political affairs, said ambassador Fahim Hamed today.

He also denied the reports suggesting that a Saudi plane was ready in Islamabad to transfer to Musharraf to Saudi. “This news is totally lacking in truth and is fabricated,” okaz. com quoted him as saying.

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in remarks published Wednesday that an al-Qaeda cell dismantled by security forces in south-eastern Yemen had plotted terrorist attacks in his country and its oil-rich neighbour Saudi Arabia.

Saleh was quoted by state newspapers as saying Yemeni police had seized documents containing "dangerous information unveiling a plan by the al-Qaeda organization to carry out terrorist acts in Yemen and Saudi Arabia."

He reportedly made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz late on Tuesday.

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority slammed Turkish soap operas, now hugely popular in the Middle East, as being "evil" and "un-Islamic", a local newspaper reported Monday

The country's head of the Higher Council of Religious Scholars, Sheikh Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, told a seminar in Riyadh that it was not permitted to watch Turkish soap operas, according to the Saudi Gazette.

Warning Arab television channels that broadcast them, al-Sheikh said those channels would be perceived as waging a war on God and Islam if they helped to make those soaps more popular.

Those soap are "full of wickedness, evil and moral degradation," he said.