Word: alam
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...than as rivals. Kashmir is not a volatile issue for India and Pakistan only: it is a threat also to world peace. The international community should, therefore, exert pressure on the two belligerent parties to resolve the problem amicably according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people. Muhammad Muzaffar Alam, Lahore, Pakistan...
...This is a time bomb for the country.' AFTAB ALAM, head of a Pakistani lawyers' association, on Taliban militants expanding their territory a week after imposing Islamic law in the Swat Valley as part of a peace deal with the government...
...central bank estimates that the amount of personal loans held by Indians nearly doubled from 2005 to 2007, to $106 billion; the country's credit-card industry has been growing at an average annual rate of nearly 30%. "There was an environment that was building up irrational exuberance," says Alam Srinivas, author of The Indian Consumer. "No one thought that anything could go wrong. The party never seemed...
...decide elections. That power lies with the rural poor and urban working classes who make up the vast majority of the country's voters. They are less concerned about geopolitical realignment than they are about the economy. "I don't know anything about the nuclear deal," says Khursheed Alam Siddiqui, an electrician in New Delhi. "For poor people like me, who work all day, eat two meals and go to sleep, it's rising prices that are the real issue. That's what I want the government...
...another Delhi neighborhood, Sami Alam, 8, tells of escaping earlier in the week from a sweatshop where he'd worked as a cook for nine months. His parents had sent him to Delhi from his native Bihar, in exchange for cash. "I didn't know how to cook, so the owner would beat me," he says, showing scars on his frail arms...