Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
International Development - JICA, Gates Foundation Partner Against Polio in Pakistan
"The Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to help eradicate polio in Pakistan through a new strategic partnership that will support the country’s campaign against the disease.International Development - JICA, Gates Foundation Partner Against Polio in PakistanUnder the partnership, which was announced Wednesday, Aug. 17, Japan will provide a 4.9 million yen ($63,956) loan to support polio eradication activities in Pakistan through 2013. The loan will be repaid by the Gates Foundation if the projects it finances are successfully implemented by the Pakistani government.
Japan started considering this partnership with the Gates Foundation in July and is also reportedly looking at providing similar loans to help decrease maternal deaths in Bangladesh."
Monday, August 15, 2011
Mick Jagger discovers ragas
Mick Jagger has recently embraced ragas. His soon to be released album with the famed Indian musician A R Rahman will showcase songs in Sanskrit and Urdu.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14471568
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14471568
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Gender equity in terrorism
While there remains a large gender gap in labour force participation, women in Pakistan have been making strides towards reducing, if not eliminating, the gap. Thursday's suicide bombing attack by a reportedly teenaged female bomber is not the female participation many in Pakistan had hoped for.
According to the local police, a female bomber first lobbed a grenade and then later blew herself up in Peshawar. The suicide bomber's age and gender makes the incident even more concerning than many similar attacks in Peshawar, which were often orchestrated by young boys, often in their early teens.
The social fabric in Pakistan is slowly disintegrating. Young boys and girls belonging to Pakistan's economically depressed areas are becoming ready recruits for merchants of terror and death. What is more troubling is the fact that Pakistan's civil and military leadership is totally inept to cope with the economic, social, and political rot.
More on this is available from the Express Tribune.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/229099/bomb-kills-five-in-pakistans-peshawar-police/
According to the local police, a female bomber first lobbed a grenade and then later blew herself up in Peshawar. The suicide bomber's age and gender makes the incident even more concerning than many similar attacks in Peshawar, which were often orchestrated by young boys, often in their early teens.
The social fabric in Pakistan is slowly disintegrating. Young boys and girls belonging to Pakistan's economically depressed areas are becoming ready recruits for merchants of terror and death. What is more troubling is the fact that Pakistan's civil and military leadership is totally inept to cope with the economic, social, and political rot.
More on this is available from the Express Tribune.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/229099/bomb-kills-five-in-pakistans-peshawar-police/
The Bali bomber found in Pakistan
The globalization of terror becomes fairly evident by the arrest of one of the suspects of Bali bombing from the tribal areas in Pakistan.
It is no longer the Uzbeks and the Chechens who found Pakistan's tribal areas as the perfect place to hide and launch their attacks within Pakistan and in Russia, now even the Indonesian militants are springing up in Pakistan. As if Pakistan needed any help on this front from others.
It is no longer the Uzbeks and the Chechens who found Pakistan's tribal areas as the perfect place to hide and launch their attacks within Pakistan and in Russia, now even the Indonesian militants are springing up in Pakistan. As if Pakistan needed any help on this front from others.
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Saudis Use Oil to Punish the Iranians - BusinessWeek
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe Arab (Saudi)-Iranian rivalry is centuries old. rom fighting wars in the ancient times to the last battle fought between Arab Iraqis and Iranians, the Arab-Iranian relationship has been a struggling one to say the least. The latest episode of this age old rivalry involves trade where Saudis are trying to hurt Iranian oil exports to India! More on this from Bloomberg below:
The Saudis Use Oil to Punish the Iranians - BusinessWeek
Super flood blamed on lasers, a cruel Pathan – The Express Tribune
Pakistanis fall for conspiracy theories even when more plausible explanations exist. The case of last year's devastating floods is no exception. Many believe in Pakistan that the government deployed lasers to melt glaciers resulting in floods . . .
Super flood blamed on lasers, a cruel Pathan – The Express Tribune
Super flood blamed on lasers, a cruel Pathan – The Express Tribune
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Bush Tax and wars behind trillions in deficit
Downgraded US Credit Rating: What comes of Coddling the Super-Rich | Informed Comment
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