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Migrants to North America/Australia are normally university educated while people who went to Europe were mostly labour class from rural background. Many went to europe for reconstruction after WWII/de-colonization. For example, Algerians in France, Pakistanis in UK and Turks in Germany...

Headley is a suspect person as he has acted as an agent of US agencies in the past. This person implicates US in Bombay events. "Headley in 1997, was one of two men arrested for smuggling heroin into the country , from Pakistan. In exchange for information about his Pakistani drug contacts...

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Under EU's new GSP scheme, BD is allowed duty free exports being a least developed country. Quote: Least-developed countries: 10. The scheme continues the duty free treatment for least-developed countries. From amongst ITCB members, Bangladesh and Maldives are listed as such. UnQuote Source...

The main resaon behind this phenominal increase is preferential treatment given to BD exports. Both EU and US have higher allocation of textile quotas for BD being one of least developed counteries in Asia. EU and US are resisting Pakistani demands for favorable terms for Pakistani textiles...

It is not about Dr Sohail Naqvi's degree. The degree of Khosa's bro-in-law is fake: "It merits mentioning here that the degree Mr. Azhar Manzoor has produced with application for the said post is reportdly found FAKE by the HEC."

BBC News, Dhaka The government wants to curb the Jamaat-e-Islami party The Bangladeshi government has ordered mosques and libraries across the country to remove all books written by a controversial Islamic scholar. The chief of the government-funded Islamic Foundation told the BBC that...

Maududi was a non-Madrassa alim, a self-taught one. Allama Iqbal invited Maududi to establish his base in Punjab. Works of Hassan al-Banna preceeded Maududi. Syed Qutub came into light much later (before 1965 when he was hanged). However, there is much overlap of ideology between Jamaat and...

BBC News, Dhaka The government wants to curb the Jamaat-e-Islami party The Bangladeshi government has ordered mosques and libraries across the country to remove all books written by a controversial Islamic scholar. The chief of the government-funded Islamic Foundation told the BBC that...

No doubt issues were there even before American troops arrived but there is sharp increase in voilence since then. Americans are not angels at playing these games. Americans have allocated millions of dollars for activities in Iran and thse are not for popcorns. Also the capacity of...

Previously, only Afghanistan was in turmoil. However, since landing of foreign troops there, we can now see turmiol in neighbouring countries which are not fully friendly towards presence of foreign troops. See ethenic riots in Xinjiang, Pak Talibans in KP, nationalist insurgents in Baluchistan...

UK is overpopulated despite the fact that millions of people migrated to USA, Canada, Australia and NZ over last centuries.

ZAB was a lestist feudal whose later generations are also leftist but still fedual. And according to you, ZAB was a good leftist but his economic managers were wrong people. ZAB was a populist and hypocrite only and miserably failed in delivering his promises.

Chinese economic managers were more wise than soviets. Chinese communism ensured that old feudals are eliminated then they provided equal growth opportunities to their people. Chinese gradually opened up their economy to foreign investment and private ownership while soviets were rigid and time...

People who run/direct a system are more important than the system itself. For example, chinese model of communism is more successful than soviet model. In Pakistan, Gen Ayub's free market economy was as bad as ZAB's fedualistic socialism or Gen Zia's Islamist economy or Gen Musharraf's neo...

European jewery is in modern middle east since last 100 years while turks are in the region more than last 1000 years. During middle ages, there were crusading Frankish kingdoms in the parts of Lebanon, Syria and Palestine that survived from 90-200 years. Saladin, a kurd, overran most powerful...

Presence of US/NATO troops or any foreign army in Afghanistan itself is a destabilising factor in the region. Unless an out-of-box solution is proposed for Afghanistan like declaring the country neutral for regional players, the country will not stabilise. It is necessary to stop turf-wars...

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Such attitude was responsible for ZAB's policy of nationalization of Pakistan's economy. That policy comprehensively stopped organic industralization of this country. Dawoods, Habibs, Adamjees were Birla, Tata, Mittals, Ambanis of Pakistan but unfortunately could not prosper in their time...

Negative perception about economic power of china is increasing in western European countries. This could be due to ever-growing chinese economy while european economies contracted during recent recession.