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Aung San Suu Kyi: “An icon in Damascus” Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:07
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By Matt Gwilliam

 

“You are an icon in Damascus,” the BBC correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts told the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, explaining how a woman in Syria had led demonstrators onto the street in the face of army snipers, using Aung as inspiration.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:12
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‘Water issues could sweep away Indo-Pak peace process’ Print E-mail
Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:57
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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issue” of water, especially given “Pakistani anxiety over access to water”, according to a number of previously unpublished secret US diplomatic cables accessed by Dawn through WikiLeaks.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 20:25
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A wound that shames our present Print E-mail
Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47
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By Jenny Moss

 

In proposing to remove the most basic safeguards for migrant domestic workers, Jenny Moss asks whether the UK government has forgotten some of the most basic principles of justice which we as a country claim to espouse.

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:49
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Be careful of over-reaction to Muslim “campus extremism” Print E-mail
Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:45
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By Tehmina Kazi

The issue of campus extremism is never far from the spotlight, and the Government’s recent review of the “Preventing Violent Extremism” strategy has once again brought it to the fore.

Last Updated on Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:47
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For Pakistan, time to try India as a friend Print E-mail
Thursday, 23 June 2011 21:41
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By Adnan Rehmat

 

Is Pakistan set to implode in its exasperating persistence to define itself in only security terms vis-à-vis India as did the Soviet Union with the United States in a nuclear-shadowed Cold War that lasted 40 years, a numbing fear that consumed three generations, but ended in a barren inevitability 20 years ago of the former collapsing into 13 new countries?

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