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...those early warnings, including riots across Dili in 2002, did not convince foreign peacekeepers - desperate to proclaim success and not to appear as occupiers - to stay longer. By 2005, most Australian soldiers went home, even though East Timor's leaders, including Ramos-Horta, had begged them not to leave too quickly. By 2006, the cracks in East Timorese society were impossible to miss. I visited the country that year and as I drove its length, passing pristine white beaches, lonely scuba divers and dilapidated Portuguese mansions, I met intensely angry former guerrilla fighters, some of whom had been sacked from...
...Pakistan, I heard time and time again that Pakistanis were not ready for democracy: they were apathetic, they could not understand the processes or the issues at stake, they were too isolated in their villages or fragmented in their clans. If that was ever true, it is true no longer. The media, and particularly the independent television channels, have engaged, informed and connected the Pakistani body politic like nothing before. This election was covered with all the excitement and real-time analysis of an American political campaign. I watched the Geo news network on my laptop throughout the night, unable...
...Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight years in power, but, perhaps more importantly for Pakistan's longer-term political future and development, it appears to be a rejection of fundamentalist Islam. The religious parties, which took 11.3% of the popular vote in the last ballot in 2002, have gone from 56 out of 272 elected seats in the National Assembly to just five, according to unofficial results...
...attacks against police, the military, government ministers and moderate leaders are not seen as attacks on Pakistan, but as a reaction to American adventurism in the region. There was a time in the 1950s and '60s when Pakistanis would proudly boast that they were America's 51st state. No longer. American support for Israel, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and increasing tensions with Iran are taken as proof that the U.S. is following an anti-Islamic agenda. Pakistanis point out that before Musharraf dragged Pakistan into America's war on terror, there were no suicide bombers...
...take this worst possible course? The only plausible answer is so as to avoid the short-term political cost of a run-down of the bank, a major employer in the northeast of England, which is one of the Labour Party's heartlands. But the longer-term political cost to the government is likely to be very severe. Governments, like financial centers, need to be jealous of their reputation. The U.K.'s reputation as a financial center is sufficiently soundly based for it to recover from the blow inflicted by the Northern Rock affair. Whether the government's reputation...