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...your cover story "How Pakistan Let Itself Down" [May 25]: Corrupt politicians are responsible for the deteriorating situation of the country. Ordinary Pakistanis worry about what's going to happen tomorrow but the ruling élite has no concerns. Their grand villas and big bank balances in Europe and America are waiting for them. Hasan Raza Gondal, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND...
...Pradamark in honor of its acute fashion sense. And hot styles are delivered with commendable speed. New products can take as little as six weeks to hit the hangers. Primark has bridged "the gap between sheer value and fast fashion," says Robert Clark of London-based consultancy Retail Knowledge Bank...
...West Bank settlers identified by the U.S. President as an obstacle to Middle East peace were expecting Bibi Netanyahu to support their cherished dream of an Israel stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, they were disappointed on Sunday night. The right-wing leader instead took a sharp and unexpected lurch to the center and said he would support a two-state solution, meaning something called Palestine is a step closer to being inked onto their 3,000-year-old biblical...
...surreptitiously supported building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size to account for myriad new thrusts into, twists around and enclosures of Arab lands. (See a video about...
...partners, but also his own Likud party. Former Likud leader Ariel Sharon was forced to quit the party - in the face of a challenge led by Netanyahu - when he pulled Israel out of Gaza. Likud's party platform specifically opposes the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Rather than a prisoner of the right, Netanyahu has until now been its most presentable leader...