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Asia's emerging markets are doing even better. The MSCI EM Asia Index is higher by 22.5% over three months, led by Pakistan (72.4%), Indonesia (36.9%), Taiwan (33.3%) and China (25%). Korea, which for some reason MSCI still classifies as an emerging market even though the country is a member of the OECD, is up 18.4%. India? Higher by 15.6%. The Philippines is up 13%, Malaysia 9.2% . . . you get the picture...
...long-term antidrug strategy doesn't need the sort of hysteria that has had some in Washington comparing Mexico to failing states like Pakistan. "Obama needs to throw a bucket of cold water on that kind of rhetoric," says Tony Payan, a Mexico expert at the University of Texas at El Paso. "He needs a Mexico approach for the next 20 years, not 20 days." Mexico is making some progress. Juárez saw violence spike last year when at least three cartels started a pitched battle for its valuable trafficking turf. (Most of the drugs from Mexico enter...
...move by Taliban-backed militants into the Buner district of northwestern Pakistan, closer than ever to Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, have prompted concerns both within the country and abroad that the nuclear-armed nation of 165 million is on the verge of inexorable collapse...
Prosecutors say the suspects trained at terrorist camps on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan run by the IJU. After returning to Germany, the men allegedly started drawing up their plans, forming a domestic cell of the IJU known as the Sauerland Group...
...pictures retracing Qasab's journey from Pakistan to Mumbai...