The secular,Shi'ite-Sunni bloc led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi took the most seats, but two more overtly Shi'ite groups are said to be close to forming a ruling coalition.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Hasham Baber is an official in the Awami National Party, a secular political party whose constituency is largely in Pakistan's northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The pro-secular campaigners charged that the probe is an attempt by the government to silence the opposition force.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

As the investigation of Saylan's organization continues, the ongoing struggle between those wanting a secular government and the islamic government, took another turn.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But newspaper columnist and political scientist Nuray Mert says the search of Saylan's home has caused great unease among many secular people in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

a secular,left-leaning party whose members are mostly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities;

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

She has called the lethal mutiny by the border guards a pre-planned conspiracy to try to sabotage her agenda to make Bangladesh a stable secular democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The 74-year-old human rights activist in many ways personified the Turkish secular state.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

That's their view of Zionism,". Gur says there is a culture war between ultra-Orthodox and secular Israelis, and a fringe group has taken it to the extreme.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

"Turkey will always be secular," tens of thousands of people chanted as they followed the coffin of professor Turkan Saylan who died of breast cancer on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20