About 1,000 clerics and religious scholars at a meeting in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of the Pope for making “insulting remarks” against Islam, and warned the West of severe consequences if it didn’t change its stance regarding Islam.

An Islamic charity in Pakistan today denied providing funds to suspects in a plot to bomb several US-bound passenger jets from Britain, saying it had no links with the alleged conspirators.

ntelligence agents in Pakistan arrested at least seven people, including two British nationals of Pakistani origin, who provided information on the terror plot aimed at blowing up US-bound passenger jets from Britain, a senior government official said today.