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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 02:46 |
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By David Cronin
Before I visited Gaza ten months ago, I continuously heard it being described as the world’s largest open-air prison. Yet it was only when I passed through Erez, the high-tech border crossing run by a private Israeli firm, that I grasped what the phrase meant. The debris of destruction wrought by ‘smart weapons’, the constant surveillance from warplanes overhead, the heavy air pollution, the grinding poverty, the absence of basic materials needed for reconstruction – all these factors combined to make me feel something akin to suffocation.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:47 |
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 07:31 |
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By Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
The formation last week of a new alliance of progressive parties in Islamabad must arouse interest in us all, irrespective of how we feel about the word ‘Left’.
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 06:49 |
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By Shaaz Mahboob
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia appears to be at a crossroads today. For decades the alliance between its powerful clergy and the royal family has proved to be one of the most stable and blissful. However, King Abdullah’s recent flirtation with modernity appears to have backfired. Cracks are now visible in this alliance that has up until now successfully acted as a vanguard against attempts to democratise the oil-rich state or bring any progressive reforms to its society.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 03:09 |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:20 |
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By David Cronin
Fresh from agreeing to allow blacks and Asians join his party, Nick Griffin is this week embracing a group of men who have funny names and speak foreign languages. Have his regular trips to Brussels and Strasbourg finally brought out the British National Party chief’s cosmopolitan side?
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Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 10:30 |
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:12 |
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By Asif Akhtar
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about talking to the Taliban, and talking to the Taliban about talking to the Taliban. I wonder what high-level policy think tank came up with this harebrained scheme; after nearly a decade of violence, someone sitting in a conference room must have snapped their fingers and said, “I’ve got it! Why don’t we ‘talk’ to the Taliban?”
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Last Updated on Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:18 |
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