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            ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— Here’s the case against SAARC: An organization whose success is dependent on two of the seven members while the rest are negligible is really not worth becoming Pakistan’s prime focus of foreign policy. What’s worse [...]
            
              December 29, 2003 | Posted in Uncategorized | 
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            Change the Rupee Into Riyal, or Dinar
            LAHORE—Pakistan’s suave envoy to Washington has discovered a bitter geographic truth that continues to escape our foreign policy community: That the Indian subcontinent – get ready for this one – is, well, Indian.
            It is not a ‘Pak-Indo’ subcontinent or ‘Pakistan and India subcontinent’. It’s just Indian, pure and simple. It has been [...]
            
              December 22, 2003 | Posted in Uncategorized | Read More »
            
           
          
            
            ISLAMABAD, Pakistan–The American occupation in Iraq is feeling the heat these days from the least expected corner: the Iraqi Shiites.
             
            Iraq?s Shiite community leaders, mostly former Iranian exiles, cooperated with the Anglo-American invasion of their country. Now they are flexing their muscles before Uncle Sam and demanding their due reward: the government of Iraq.
             
            Washington [...]
            
              December 1, 2003 | Posted in Uncategorized | 
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