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Pakistani diaspora is the world's 7th largest Print E-mail
Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:15
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By Riaz Haq

 

Nearly 5 million Pakistani emigrants make up the world's 7th largest disapora, according to the World Bank Factbook 2011. Adding the foreign-born children of these Pakistani emigres to the tally pushes the total figure up to about 7 million.

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Five lessons from Lib Dem conference Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:27
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The Institute for Public Policy Research held five fringe events at the Liberal Democrats conference; IPPR Associate Director, Will Straw, sets out five lessons from the fringe:

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Flood relief by caste, creed Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:15
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By Zofeen T. Ebrahim

 

With just the clothes on their backs, Moora Sanafdhano, 68, and his family of nine waded through waist-deep flood waters swirling through their village of Allah Ditto Leghari, saving themselves in the nick of time.

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Exploring the realtionship between Pakistan and Britain Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 September 2011 23:00
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The RSA, Samosa and City University London present a series of four events exploring the complex and intimate relationships between Pakistan, Britain and the Pakistani diaspora in the UK.  Pakistan is a young country with an old history. In the last year alone it has had to contend with floods, assassinations, attacks on minority communities, the revelation Osama Bin Laden had been living there, terrorist attacks and the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan. What is the future for modern Pakistan, and what can the diaspora networks in the UK do to support it?

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South Asian countries urged not to let their beaches be used as dumping grounds Print E-mail
Sunday, 18 September 2011 16:33
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South Asian countries must not allow the use of their beaches as dumping grounds for the west’s chemically contaminated and extremely hazardous ships. This was the crux of a seminar organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad, said a press release on Friday.

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