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...four months after the recently restored Supreme Court ruled that the 2007 State of Emergency declared by former president General Pervez Musharraf in November 2007 had been unconstitutional and illegal. The amnesty that spared Zardari having to face charges was issued by Musharraf as part of a last-ditch attempt to hang onto power by cutting a deal with Zardari and his late wife, the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who also faced corruption charges. (Zardari had previously served two stints and a total of 11 years behind bars, having been arrested, although never convicted, under former Prime Minister...
...study was authored by Harvard Law School Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk, Holger Spamann, a lecturer at the Law School, and Alma Cohen, a visiting law professor from Tel Aviv University. The authors attempt to dispel what they call the “standard narrative of the meltdown” that does not give payment schemes a leading role in the financial crisis...
...demonstrating a new comity, Obama has gained the global credibility to get tough - on Iran, for example - in his second year. But the real evaluation of Obama's debut must wait for the results of the two biggest problems he's tackling: his decision on Afghanistan and the congressional attempt to pass health care reform. And even here, it will be difficult to render judgment immediately - as difficult as it was to judge Clinton's decision to spend his political capital on deficit reduction in his 1993 economic plan, a triumph that didn't become apparent for nearly five years...
...closest allies that Iran should forfeit the right to enrich uranium on its own soil even for peaceful purposes. Enrichment, under international supervision, to create reactor fuel is a right guaranteed to signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Brazil and other would-be nuclear-energy producers view attempts to limit the peaceful nuclear ambitions of a developing nation as an unfair attempt by the established nuclear powers to keep the new boys down...
...would not release them if there was evidence linking them to an attack. So ostensibly, there is no need to "reintegrate" them at all. But the "re-integration agreement," which also contains a clause in which the signatory volunteers his biometric data, is part of the Afghan government's attempt to reconcile with the forces inimical to it. McCullough said that supporting the Afghan government was paramount to his mission. But the reintegration forms, he explained later, "are not us, they are GIRoA. We helped them clean it up, gave them ideas, used our computers." (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...