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British Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his shock Wednesday over the abduction and killing of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad and called for a transparent investigation.
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By Rumbold
The latest figures from India’s national census make for grim reading. Between 2001 and 2011 the gender ratio (number of girls compared to number of boys per thousand) worsened, with only 914 girls for every 1000 boys being recorded, down from a ratio of 974:1000 in 1961. Some of the worst offending states, especially Haryana, did see slight improvements, but this was more than offset by the decline in Southern India, which traditionally has been less anti-female than the north. Much of the gap is due female foetuses being aborted. But infanticide (the killing of babies/infants) is also widespread, with young girls being murdered all over India.
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 By Sean Adams
This morning, DiS is waking up to our Twitter feed and Facebook dashboard full of tributes to the legendary poet, author, activist and one of the key progenitors of hip-hop/rap/almost-all-political-music Gil Scott-Heron.
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 By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Al-Qaeda carried out the brazen attack on PNS Mehran naval air station in Karachi on May 22 after talks failed between the navy and al-Qaeda over the release of naval officials arrested on suspicion of al-Qaeda links, an Asia Times Online investigation reveals.
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 By Saima Mir
How does one cope in a country where the equivalent of 9/11 happens almost every day? Steeped in pain, stress, and with a heavy dose of denial, Pakistan’s children are being raised with a sense of helplessness. Psychiatrists believe large numbers of Pakistanis are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and little is being done to help them.
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 By Kamran Yousaf
Pakistan and the United States on Friday pushed for a “new deal” in an effort to salvage their shaky anti-terror alliance at the crucial talks here on Friday among senior civil and military authorities from the two sides.
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 By Dr Mubashir Hasan
The current politico-economic-security situation in South and Southwest Asia presents a long-awaited opportunity for India and Pakistan to work towards establishing, on a long-term basis, peace and democracy in the region. The opportunity arises out of the global warlike situation.
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 By Matt Owen
Stevan Riley’s excellent Fire in Babylon covers how the West Indies of the late 1970s abandoned the flamboyant style of losing dubbed ”calypso cricket,” and morphed into a juggernaut of a side who went undefeated in a test series for more than fifteen years; James Erskine’s From the Ashes, meanwhile, presents the celebration of England’s 1981 Ashes win as a rare moment of national unity during a time in which Thatcher was introducing the country to her brutally divisive brand of neoliberalism.
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A Pakistani journalist has been found dead near the capital Islamabad after writing about links between the Pakistani military and al Qaeda, officials said Today. Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, worked for an Italian news agency and an online news site registered in Hong Kong. He went missing on Sunday after he left his home in the capital to take part in a television talk show, but never arrived.
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 By Mark Pack
The NHS Bill will be substantially changed – that was the message from Liberal Democrat MP and Health Minister Paul Burstow at Lewisham Liberal Democrats on Friday night. It won’t just be changed, he said, it will be changed in a distinctively Liberal Democrat direction.
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 By Dominic Browne
The capture of Ratko Mladic forces this continent to remember our sickening inaction throughout the Bosnian War of 1992-95, the stage of the worst atrocities Europe has seen since the World War Two. It also forces Serbia to a make a reckoning and break with this part of its history, while never forgetting what took place in its name, and the name of the Serbian people.
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 By Verity
David Rose, writing in the Mail on Sunday over the weekend, criticised the science behind the government's decision on carbon budgets, which committed the UK to halving emissions of carbon dioxide by 2025.
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 By Dominic Browne
President Barack Obama, leader of the free world and its undisputed political rock star, was all over the UK media before he even stepped off the plane in Ireland, let alone arrived in this country. In America, however, they have taken something of a more laid back approach to his visit.
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