Word: pakistan
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...years since I lived in Hong Kong. While the garishly lit skyscrapers of Beijing and Shanghai may mask continuing poverty, China has begun to cast off the worst vestiges of communism. On the international front, Beijing has sometimes been helpful, trying to cool tensions between India and Pakistan, keeping North Korean military ambitions in check and usually abstaining (rather than voting no) on U.N. ballots to use force in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans...
...accords are hardly specific. But the latest agreements between India and Pakistan should not be dismissed lightly, either. Over the weekend at a historic summit meeting in Pakistan, the leaders of the two countries agreed to keep talking about many of the issues that separate them -- including control of Kashmir -- and to take confidence-building measures aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear war between the two countries. "What an unexpected change of course!" says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister...
...that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened the rope of their relationship a bit"---and thus given themselves, and the rest of the world, more time to think before reacting to unexpected events...
Last week the state of Oklahoma killed SEAN SELLERS. He was the first person in 40 years executed for a crime committed at age 16, and the 10th juvenile offender executed in the U.S. this decade, more than in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Iran--the only other countries that are known to execute child offenders--combined...
There are also concrete, practical arguments against the death penalty and its application. Of the six countries that execute people for crimes committed as children--Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and the United States--the U.S. has executed more children than any of the others: 160 since 1973. This monstrosity occurs despite the fact that every major international human rights treaty expressly prohibits executing people for committing crimes before...