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...nation state in the early 20th century, Muhammad Iqbal, a Sufi poet and philosopher, saw an opportunity in the coming independence of India to put into practice his theories of modern Islamic governance. He proposed an Islamic nation carved from the Muslim-majority provinces of northwest and northeast India. "The movement for the formation of Pakistan was not based on religious extremism or emotionalism," says former Supreme Court judge Javid Iqbal, Iqbal's son. "It was to be a modern state, adhering to modern interpretations of Islam, particularly of Islamic laws." Iqbal believed in the sanctity of the religious obligations...
...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...
...Ouandja, up in the turbulent and remote northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), not far from the border with Sudan's Darfur, is connected to the capital, Bangui, by rutted roads that become impassable in the rainy season. The town and its residents have long been abandoned by the state. Still, Patrice has not lost hope that, one day, someone in Bangui might recognise his efforts as an educator...
...Since independence the governments and the presidents have forgotten about the northeast," says El Hadj Abdullah Yusuf, an elder and one of the biggest traders in the town of 20,000. "If it wasn't for the aid workers there would be no hospital here," he sighs...
...African Americans that Wisconsin has as a percentage of its overall population (11.4% vs. 5.6%) and a smaller percentage of Hispanics, who have in other states produced strong margins for Clinton. Through last weekend, Obama was outspending Clinton by about three to one in the state's pivotal Northeast quadrant, where the largest share of Democrats live. Clinton aired her first Ohio spot starting Tuesday...