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...time, that was enough. Even now, Trintomar officials dismiss the idea that the deal took advantage of them. "I thought it was a well-taken decision," says Malcolm Jones, who signed the Citibank-Trintomar agreement on behalf of the state-owned gas firm. Jones says he relied on the finance staff of Petrotrin to evaluate the complicated deal. Petrotrin's president, Rodney Jagai, also defends the deal, arguing that the terms reflect Citibank's dominant position in the market at the time. "Citibank was the only game in town," he says, dismissing the offers made by other banks. "Were...
...Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat-e-Islami is a cultured...
...clerics have a long litany of gripes against the Americans and Musharraf, whom they dismiss as "an American agent" and "a puppet." They resent him for allowing the U.S. to use Pakistani military bases in Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier province as staging posts in its Afghan campaign. It angers them that agents of the fbi wiretap Pakistani telephones and organize raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. The Islamic hard-liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down...
Judge Agnes’ ruling is a significant addition to the case law regarding the authority of a judge to dismiss a case over the objections of the Commonwealth...
Although Brandano did raise the constitutional question of whether a judge had the authority to dismiss a case over the objections of the Commonwealth, Agnes said that Tim T. did not answer that question...