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VIDEO: Obama’s Nowruz message to the Iranian People
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Aziz Poonawalla
There is something simply amazing about this. The video even has subtitles in Farsi. It is often said that the Internet allowed Obama to bypass the Washington DC media establishment and reach out directly to the American people; now he is using the same technology to bypass the Tehran establishment and speak directly to the…
Taliban’s Mullah Omar changes the rules
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is an interesting development: The militants active in North and South Waziristan agencies have been directed by Mulla Omar to immediately stop their attacks on the Pakistani security forces. In a letter to the militants, who have forged a new alliance, Mulla Omar admonished them not to fight the Pakistani security forces and kill…
Ayman Nour released from prison in Egypt
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Aziz Poonawalla
Excellent, if surprising, news for democracy and political reform in Egypt – dissident and one-time opposition party candidate for President against Hosni Mubarak, was released quite abruptly from prison yesterday: Mr. Nour, a charismatic political leader who challenged the governing parties’ monopoly on power, said his more than three years in prison came to an…
The Taliban win: Shari’a for Swat
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Aziz Poonawalla
There’s no other way to interpret this news, except simply as “the terrorists have won” in the full sense of the word: Pakistan’s government has agreed to restore sharia, or Islamic law, in the Swat valley and neighbouring areas of the country’s northwest as part of a peace deal with local pro-Taliban fighters.… Announcing the…
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