Word: kamal
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...secret negotiations with the Iranians on behalf of the Bush Administration between 2001 and 2003, says her Iranian counterparts made sure to report to Khamenei or his trusted advisers before and after every conversation with U.S. officials. She points out that two former Foreign Ministers - Ali Akbar Velayati and Kamal Kharraji - are among those advisers. Both men have had some experience in dealing with the West...
...trade policymakers, a resonant message from the recent World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, was the need to guard against protectionism amid the global financial crisis. Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath led a chorus of Davos voices warning that governments, desperate for measures to preserve their slumping domestic industries, might move to restrict imports to ease competitive pressures - a formula that in the past has only exacerbated economic downturns by sparking commerce-killing trade wars...
...Sunday, Indian media began reporting that the only attacker captured alive, a Versace-T-shirted 21-year-old by the name of Ajmal Amir Kamal, was Pakistani, and that he had identified all his fellow militants as being trained by the banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Pakistanis are suspicious of these claims. "There is simply not enough evidence at this point to blame Pakistan," says Najam Sethi, editor of the English political weekly, the Friday Times. "No statement made under duress can be counted as 100% fact, and you can imagine the conditions under which this confession...
...first scenes of “The Roof,” directed by Kamal Aljafari, the camera pans slowly over an unfinished roof. That roof is later revealed to be the narrator’s childhood home in a Palestinian neighborhood in present-day Israel. Aljafari’s movie was one of the films featured prominently at the second annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, which took place this past weekend at the Harvard Film Archive and other venues around Boston. “This year the focus was on the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe when...
...will be forced to cut discretionary spending. Some sectors are already getting hurt. New car sales - 80% of which are financed - are slowing. Tata Motors reported a 3% decline in sales in August compared with the year before, while Maruti Suzuki reported a 9% drop. Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has been warning publicly that the country's GDP growth will slow this year to between 7% and 8%, down from more than 9% last year...