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...Pakistan has been under growing U.S. pressure to rein in the ISI over its alleged links to Islamist militants, and as Gilani boarded his flight to Washington on Saturday, his government suddenly announced that the ISI - Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency - and its civilian counterpart, the Intelligence Bureau, would be placed under the "administrative, financial and operational control" of the Ministry of Interior. Although until now the ISI had been nominally under the administrative control of the Prime Minister, it has throughout its 60 years operated in notorious secrecy and with negligible civilian oversight. "The move would have opened...
...prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told him Suu Kyi might possibly be released in six months' time turned out to be a misunderstanding. A clarification was quickly issued in which the Burmese government was quoted as saying the earliest Suu Kyi might be freed would be after...
...despite such successes, international justice has gotten a bad rap over the past decade. The rap stems from the failure to arrest criminals like Karadzic and his military counterpart Ratko Mladic, the slow pace and steep expense of the trials at the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the delays to the start of trials at the International Criminal Court (ICC). When Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the ICC, requested a warrant to arrest Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide a week before the Karadzic arrest, he was widely...
...Vietnam continued for two more years. Gorbachev got the prize in 1990, shortly before he was overtaken by events he could not control. In this case, perhaps, the award will be a harbinger and will prop up its recipients and the peace process. Neither man can afford for his counterpart to fail. De Klerk's fragility does not gratify Mandela. The skepticism of Mandela's left wing does not comfort De Klerk. History shows that the weaker the negotiating partners, the weaker the peace negotiated. For Mandela, who emerged unbowed after nearly three decades in prison, the award...
...letter was drafted and this time actually sent. Cedras and Francois would resign after all, but not until Aristide nominated their successors and they were confirmed by the Haitian Senate. Parliamentary confirmation has a nice, American ring to it, but Haiti's Senate is not its U.S. counterpart. ''They fear for their lives, and quite reasonably so,'' says an American diplomat. ''Since the coup, they've done only what Cedras and Francois dictate.'' Under Cedras' scheme, the Senate could reject numerous nominations before agreeing to people he and Francois find acceptable. Once again, Aristide would be a figurehead, a symbol...