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 By Amir Qureshi
It was only a matter of time anyway. A few days ago, a police officer along with his squad burst into the Nairang Art Gallery and beat up the female curator for wearing a sleeveless dress and interacting with men. The police officer, a SHO, was perturbed by the ‘fahash’ ambience of the place.
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 By Abhirup Bhunia
Globalization has integrated the world and anything that’s pre-internationalism appears obsolete. But the roots of religion and faith trace back to centuries and are based on ideals that cannot be blown away with the sermons of all-embracing globalism. This has once again been proven with the onslaught of fanatical activity in once peaceful Norway.
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 By Bansi Kara
This morning, there is still the faint stench of smoke from burnt out buildings not a five minute walk away from my house. On my first venture outdoors, to see the damage the rioters caused last night, in the worst disorder I have ever seen in my lifetime, I see a man with a hosepipe, putting out a smouldering wheelie bin.
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 By Natalia Tariq
Arecent report published by the Centre for Global Development, titled, “Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the US Approach to Development in Pakistan”, discusses how the US aid and development programme in Pakistan is not working. The report makes suggestions to revamp the programme in order to best meet the development needs of a country that is currently facing an economic crisis, a breakdown of law and order and weak political institutions.
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By Asian Image reporter
Cambridge University is hosting the world’s only programme that creates an international social entrepreneurs network to improve Jewish-Muslim relations. The Ariane de Rothschild (AdR) Fellowship brings together Muslim and Jewish social entrepreneurs from UK, France and USA to participate in a unique model for conflict resolution at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. The AdR Fellowship is the brainchild of Firoz Ladak, the Muslim executive director of the Edmond and Benjamin de Rothschild Foundations. Now in its third year, 24 social entrepreneurs will participate in this year’s programme.
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 By Hasan Zaidi
American diplomats were not very hopeful about the long-term prospects of Pakistan and India easily resolving their disagreements about the “emotional issue” of water, especially given “Pakistani anxiety over access to water”, according to a number of previously unpublished secret US diplomatic cables accessed by Dawn through WikiLeaks.
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 By Sunny
This article from Foreign Policy mag has some eye-popping stats:
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 By Ahmad Ali Khalid
It’s difficult to have a sensible discussion about gender in Pakistan. We become too apologetic and run to the latest tapes by preachers and televangelists seeking cheap assurances. Let us be blunt, Islam or no Islam – Pakistan has a problem when it comes to women – this is the reality on the ground, and so questions have to be asked.
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 By Dan Smith
Last month Cuba and the United Kingdom signed a formal declaration to strengthen bilateral co-operation. The agreement champions “closer dialogue and economic, scientific, technical, educational, cultural and sporting links between the two countries” and highlights key areas for collaboration including environmental issues, biotechnology, trade and investment, regional security, child protection and disaster preparedness.
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 By Marko Attila Hoare
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I am the European Neighbourhood Section Director of the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), a think-tank that promotes democratic geopolitics, and of which I have been a member since its foundation. I believe that the HJS is a positive, progressive voice that has been and is listened to with respect by British politicians and government ministers, both Labour and Conservative.
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By Sunny Hundal
On 25th July, the Jerusalem Post published an editorial that seemed to blame Norway’s own policies for the terrorist attacks. It stated: Undoubtedly, there will be those – particularly on the Left – who will extrapolate out from Breivik’s horrific act that the real danger facing contemporary Europe is rightwing extremism and that criticism of multiculturalism is nothing more than so much Islamophobia.
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 By Will Straw
Figures in today’s Independent suggest that Britain is bottom of the G7′s growth league table. Excluding Japan because of the “special factors” caused by the Tohoku earthquake, Britain is growing more slowly than every other major developed economy.
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 By Dr. Manzur Ejaz
It is a general observation that in repressive regimes the rulers often create fantasy lands based on imaginary enemies that can obscure the realities of life. The core of Pakistani state has followed the pattern that is a norm in most Middle East countries where anti-America obsession is used by kings and ‘elected’ dictators as a device to detract people.
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