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• SAMMA Stresses Creative Importance

  Special Features

  Created: December, 2008 Author: Carolyn Lengel

  The South Asians in Media and Marketing Association (SAMMA) Summit, held on November 1 in New York, offered grounds for cautious optimism among media creators and distributors in global and South Asian markets. Creative content from South Asia, expertise ...

• Peace prospects in Afghanistan

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  Created: December, 2008 Author: Waheeda Khan

    On both sides of the conflict in Afghanistan, the possibility of peace negotiations is gaining prominence. Though the Afghan war is at its highest pitch since it began seven years ago, growing daily in scope and savagery, in recent developments, Pakis...

• Mixed Fortunes

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  Created: December, 2008 Author: Arsalan Niazi

    It is as much bad news for the Indian economy as it is for others, with economists cutting growth forecasts for the country, as the global financial downturn takes hold. Until recently India was confidently asserting that its mainly inward-looking eco...

• The Ultimate Question

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  Created: December, 2008 Author: Javed Ansari

    If and when Pervez Musharraf decides to enter politics, what kind of a leader will he prove to be? Will he make amends for his past mistakes and lead from the front – or will he also lose his way in Pakistan’s political maze?  Much has been writt...

• China: A State without Territory

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  Created: December, 2008 Author: Kate Heartfeld

  It doesn’t take a prophet to foresee the future of Tibet, as a nation within a territory. Will the future lead to its eventual annihilation? What is the future of the Tibetan Diaspora? It’s a Diaspora that is unique in the history of humanity. It is a...

• Back to the IMF

  Features

  Created: December, 2008 Author: Shamim ur Rehman Alvi

  Now that Pakistan is again an IMF borrower, it must enforce strict discipline, practise careful planning and do loads of hard work to come out of its current economic miseries. The International Monetary Fund has granted a loan of $7.6 billion loan to Pak...

• A'isha in a New Light

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  Created: December, 2008 Author: Sangeeta Mehta

   Author: Sherry JonesPublisher: Beaufort Books, Inc. (October 2008)Pages: 432 pages, HardcoverPrice: $24.95ISBN-10: 0825305187ISBN-13: 978-0825305184  As the newspaper articles and blogs explain, it was Islamic studies professor Denise Spellberg’s com...