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Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:51 |
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 By Riaz Haq
A new British aid package for Pakistan, announced by Prime Minister David Cameron in Islamabad, is worth $1,055 million over four years. The money will fund education for up to 4 million students, train 9,000 teachers, purchase 6 million new text books and build 8,000 schools by 2015, according to various media reports.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 18:21 |
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Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:35 |
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 By James Meadway
Defiant words from George Osborne about putting “fuel into the tank of the British economy”, presenting a budget that underlined the coalition’s determination to cut its way through this crisis. A few more tax reductions, a few more chops at alleged over-regulation, and an ugly assault on the planning system.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:44 |
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Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:22 |
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 By Nora Fisher Onar
The prospect of Turkish membership of the European Union looks more remote than ever. But neither Europe’s infirmity nor Turkey’s widening horizons need be the end of the story. A revived relationship based on mutual benefit remains possible.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 April 2011 17:47 |
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Tuesday, 05 April 2011 18:27 |
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 By Arif Rafiq
The always-important Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan visited Pakistan this weekend to ensure that the country’s major power brokers are behind Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as the latter faces a possibly Iran-backed domestic uprising from its Shia native majority.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 April 2011 18:36 |
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Tuesday, 05 April 2011 18:12 |
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 By Shashank Joshi
It was thought that Syria might be immune to the democratic winds of the Arab Spring. Bashar al-Assad is a youthful 45, in comparison to the aged figures of Mubarak, Ben Ali, and Gaddafi. His tenure has been relatively short – ten years, versus Gaddafi’s 42. A recent ill-timed puff piece in Vogue magazine described Assad’s wife as on the way to turning Syria into “a beacon of culture and secularism”.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 April 2011 18:19 |
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