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South Asia Community on Hillary vs, Obama
2008-04-28 00:00:00 The views of South Asian-Americans are heavily influenced by the perceived positions of the presidential candidates regarding the South Asian nations. While there are no polls indicating their preferences, there is anecdotal evidence that the Democrats are likely to attract the largest share of South Asian-American votes this year.The Clintons ...
By: Pakistan News
Common Currency in South Asia
2008-03-24 21:14:00 Introduction The issue of consolidating the South Asian economies, and have stronger economic relations in the region, is not new. However, the idea of having a common currency in South Asia was encouraged after a successful launch of EURO by European Union in 2002. The talks for a common currency in South Asia began in 2004, when then Prime Minister of India Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to Pakistan for SAARC summit. It was termed by economies as a visionary initiative which would bring businesses in South Asia closer to each other, kick-starting closer economic ties. This was followed up by the commitment towards economic integration through free trade agreement in the Twelfth SAARC Summit, Islamabad. However, not many empirical studies have taken place to suggest the framework for launching a common currency for South Asia. Many industry stalwarts and economists have put forth the prospective benefits and problems of having a common currency. The aim of this article is to summa...
Diabetes: Our Emerging Epidemic
2008-03-08 12:00:00 Sometime ago, not in so distant past, I went through a publication in British Medical Journal (BMJ) that talked about diabetes in British population of South Asian descent. I must admit that it was a pretty revealing article. Over the past two decades diabetes has acquired the status of a world epidemic. ...
Thackeray Hate Campaign Continue?..
2008-03-05 08:07:00 Bal Thackeray is a goon, a criminal who loves to give lecture about patriotism but always try to break this great country unity into small republic at every point just because of votes. I have been watching both (Bal and Udav) Thackeray?s comments and speeches since last 3-4 months and only thing coming out form ...
India acts to encourage free trade in South Asia
2008-03-03 13:22:00 In a bid to accelerate the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta), India will let 244 additional items to be freely traded with least developed countries in the region.
By: Latest News
Foreign Relations of the United States: South Asia Crisis, 1971
2008-02-17 03:39:00 The Department of State released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971. This volume, part of the ongoing official record of U.S. foreign policy, presents key documentation on the Nixon Administration's policy immediately prior to and during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Included in this volume is full coverage of the tilt...
By: Asiaing.com
Christie?s Highlights Modern and Contemporary Art from South Asia
2008-02-17 00:00:00 CHRISTIE’S HIGHLIGHTS MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SOUTH ASIA South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art New York - On March 20 in New York, Christie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will feature works from the leading 20th and 21st century artists from South Asia, including artists from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The sale ...
Pakistan Elections - 2008: Need For A Positive Approach
2008-02-15 03:00:00 By Swaraaj Chauhan The national elections generate special excitement in any country?and Pakistan is no exception. Next week the Pakistanis would be lining up the polling booths to decide the future leaders of their country. It is expected that a large number of people would turn up to exercise their power to cast their precious vote. ...
Kashmir: A forgotten tragedy
2008-02-05 18:11:00 ?Kashmir calls back, its pull stronger than ever, its whispers its fairy magic to the ear and its memory disturbs the mind.? - -Jawaharlal Nehru During Maharaja Ranjit Singh reign, three brothers, Gulab Singh, Suchet Singh and Dhian Singh acquired powerful influence at his court and Dhian Singh became his principal advisor and Sikh Durbar in ...
By: Wayward Mind
Food Security Problems to Arise in South Asia and Southern Africa
2008-02-02 18:41:00 When we think of climate change and the negative effects it has on the world food security is often one of the last to be acknowledged, if it ever is. People are more than willing to acknowledge a...
By: Green Options
Web of Censorship
2008-01-18 16:46:00 Dissent has been the most cherished human ideal throughout the course of human history and all the revolutions, religions and invention trace their roots to the same ideal. Like the prophetic dictum of Rousseau that ?Man is born free, but in chains everywhere,? however, the tyranny has always been on the march to hush the ...
By: Wayward Mind
?No space for further burials?
2008-01-06 16:40:00 Within forty years of the setting up of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 1967 at Lahore, the Ghari Khuda Bux cemetery has received four members of Bhutto family in succession or one Bhutto in a decade, all killed in mysterious circumstances. The dynasty has a tinge of tragedy, curse and trouble like the Kennedeys in ...
By: Wayward Mind
Doing Business in South Asia 2007, Free ebook
2007-12-20 03:57:00 Doing Business in South Asia 2007 is third in a series of regional Doing Business reports.
By: Asiaing.com
South Korea: Brawl Over Speaker?s Chair
2007-12-14 21:17:00 Democracy in Action South Korean lawmakers start a brawl over the Speaker’s Chair. Too bad our own Congressman and Senators don’t engage in this kind of activity every once in a while… brawl koreaUploaded by dollarsandsense123
History, rulers and the Pakistani Way
2007-12-02 16:22:00 ?Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.? George Santayana The Pakistan?s political history is littered with blood and shameful departures of rulers. Our rulers thrive on violence; orchestrate political farces to hoodwink the masses and end up to the same shameful end. Pakistan first premier Liaqut Ali Khan was gunned down in a Rawalpindi ...
By: Wayward Mind
Jihad on the radio waves
2007-11-25 15:31:00 The militancy, which now plagues most of the NWFP, its proliferation would not have been possible without the manipulation of the radio waves by the hardliner clerics.The FM radio stations installed at the many of Madrassahs across the province and tribal areas have played a crucial role in the proliferation of militant doctrines. These illegal FM ...
By: Wayward Mind
?A mortal is God in all his might, This I will not write.?
2007-11-21 15:17:00 “We had no funds, no files, no office, no dictaphone. And yet, with nothing in hand but a pencil, we wrote the most glorious chapter in the cultural renaissance of our people.” - -Kirshen Chander (1966) Media has a strong tradition of resistance in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. From the refusal of the father of Indian journalism James ...
By: Wayward Mind
Earthquake hits central Nepal
2007-10-29 13:07:00 An earthquake with a magnitude of five on the Richter scale shook parts of central Nepal on Monday. Officials at the National Seismological Centre said ...
By: B4U India
UK keeping close watch on Karachi blasts
2007-10-29 13:07:00 The United Kingdom Government is keeping a close watch on the probe into the October 18 attack on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming ...
By: B4U India
PML-Q and PML-N could forge an alliance: Pak PM
2007-10-29 13:07:00 Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said there is a "possibility" that the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) and its arch-rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz could ...
By: B4U India
Swat militants agree to cease-fire
2007-10-29 13:07:00 A day after the Pakistan Army gunned down 10 pro-Taliban militants in the Swat region of Waziristan Province, militants have agreed to a cease-fire, said ...
By: B4U India
Musharraf won't be a roadblock in Benazir's road to third premiership
2007-10-29 13:07:00 Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will not act as an impediment in the way of Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto becoming the Prime Minister of ...
By: B4U India
Nawaz Sharif?s return to Pak still uncertain
2007-10-29 12:58:00 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif’s homecoming is still uncertain, political and diplomatic sources have claimed. Sharif, who was in exile for over eight ...
By: B4U India
Sindh CM terms Benazir a corruption goddess
2007-10-29 12:58:00 Without naming former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Sindh Province Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that "Devi (goddess) corruption has reached Pakistan." Rahim ...
By: B4U India
US intervention in Pak a threat to national sovereignty: Ghinwa Bhutto
2007-10-29 12:58:00 Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto) chief and sister-in-law of Benazir Bhutto, Ghinwa Bhutto, said the mounting American intervention in Pakistan poses a threat to national ...
By: B4U India
A majority of Pakistanis yearn for a peaceful nation: US Congresswoman
2007-10-29 12:58:00 US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has said that a majority of Pakistanis want to advance as a peaceful nation, adding, that democratic elections in Pakistan ...
By: B4U India
US not mediating between Musharraf and politicians: Aziz
2007-10-29 12:58:00 Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has denied the involvement of the US in the political negotiations currently undergoing between President Pervez Musharraf and other political ...
By: B4U India
Anti-Indian US diplomat hired to lobby for Islamabad in Washington
2007-10-29 12:56:00 The US diplomat, who questioned the accession of Kashmir to India, has been hired by Pakistan to lobby for Islamabad in Washington. Former US Assistant ...
By: B4U India
Pakistani-American in race for New Jersey's county chief
2007-10-29 12:52:00 Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader from New Jersey Agha Afzal is contesting for the post of Jersey City county executive on a Republican ticket. ...
By: B4U India
Kabul denies its involvement in fuelling violence in Swat
2007-10-29 12:52:00 Afghanistan has refuted allegations of Kabul's role in fuelling violence in Pakistan's Waziristan province and Swat areas, where clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban militants ...
By: B4U India
Musharraf orders non-interference of spy agencies in general elections
2007-10-29 12:52:00 Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has ordered all intelligence agencies not to interfere in the election process of the country, official sources have revealed. Musharraf ...
By: B4U India
No talks with extremists: Benazir
2007-10-29 12:48:00 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who escaped an assassination bid on October 18 in Karachi, has categorically ruled out any talks with extremists who ...
By: B4U India
UN Security Council likely to extend Mission in Nepal
2007-10-27 14:58:00 The United Nations Security Council is likely to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), a top UN official said. A ...
By: B4U India
Did US Governments since ?70s help Pakistan proliferate nuclear weapons?
2007-10-27 14:57:00 Every US Government from Jimmy Carter to George W Bush has condoned Pakistan's nuclear activity, rewriting and destroying evidence provided by the US and Western ...
By: B4U India
28 more eligible voters added in Pak's new voters list
2007-10-27 14:56:00 A staggering 28 million new voters have been added in the new voters list, that has been prepared by the Election Commission of Pakistan. With ...
By: B4U India
Benazir visits native home after eight years
2007-10-27 14:56:00 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has reached her native home in Naudero in Larkana, and offered prayers at the tomb of her father Zulfikar Ali ...
By: B4U India
No one will be allowed to harm Pakistan?s nuclear capability: Aziz
2007-10-27 14:55:00 Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that nuclear capability and nuclear scientists were Pakistan’s prime assets and no one would be allowed to harm them. ...
By: B4U India
Benazir asks govt to seek assistance of US, UK for better investigation
2007-10-27 14:54:00 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Friday formally asked the government to seek assistance from the US and Britain in investigating the October 18 attacks ...
By: B4U India
Musharraf trapped, walled in from all sides: Aitzaz Ahsan
2007-10-27 10:15:00 Lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan has said that President Pervez Musharraf is trapped, walled in from all sides, has no legal means of evading the consequences, and ...
By: B4U India
FIR against Benazir if PML-Q leaders attacked: Pak minister
2007-10-27 10:14:00 Pakistan’s Religious Affairs Minister Ejaz-ul-Haq has said that if Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Pervaiz Elahi or I am attacked, then undoubtedly, an FIR will be registered ...
By: B4U India
Nawaz Sharif refuses to meet General Musharraf in Jeddah
2007-10-27 09:31:00 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has refused to meet President Pervez Musharraf in Jeddah. PML-N leader Saeed Elahi, who met the exiled leader ...
By: B4U India
Sharif to contest from Hyderabad
2007-10-27 09:30:00 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided that he will contest the upcoming general elections from Hyderabad in Sindh province. Dr Qadir Magsi, who ...
By: B4U India
Violence in Swat due to ?growing influence of Talibanisation?: PPP
2007-10-27 09:27:00 Terming the incidents in Swat as a "heinous acts of terrorism", the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has once again drawn attention to what it calls ...
By: B4U India
I know the people who brought Osama to Pakistan: Benazir
2007-10-27 09:27:00 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that she knew people who supported terrorism and who had brought Osama bin Laden to Pakistan. "I know ...
By: B4U India
Benazir wants restructuring of ISI
2007-10-27 09:25:00 Former premier Benazir Bhutto has said that the reconciliation process is being destroyed by the ruling PML-Q and Pakistan’s intelligence agencies, and demanded restructuring of ...
By: B4U India
?Judgement on Musharraf?s eligibility for another term by Nov 1?
2007-10-27 09:24:00 Justice Javed Iqbal has said that the decision on petitions against the eligibility of General Pervez Musharraf for another term is likely to be announced ...
By: B4U India
Pro-Taliban militants publicly behead four Pak security personnel in Swat
2007-10-27 09:23:00 Pro-Taliban militants have publicly executed four law-enforcement personnel in a village, 16km west of Mingora, the district headquarters of Swat in the North West Frontier ...
By: B4U India
UN Security Council urges Nepal to set early date for election
2007-10-26 14:11:00 The United Nations Security Council has urged Nepal to set an early date for Constituent Assembly elections, which have been postponed twice in recent months. ...
By: B4U India
Pak soldiers, pro-Taliban militants clash in Swat
2007-10-26 14:10:00 An exchange of fire is underway between pro-Taliban militants and Frontier Corps (FC) in Imam Derai area of Swat in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). ...
By: B4U India
Pakistani troupe for Lahore-Amritsar Saanjh Festival
2007-10-26 14:10:00 A Pakistani troupe is here to participate in the fourth Lahore-Amritsar Saanjh Festival, organised by Rafi peer theatre in collaboration with the Spring Will Education ...
By: B4U India
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