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While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families...
...Europe. "There is such diversity among different minorities, with some greatly outperforming even the white majority, that to have laws that just benefit you because of the color of your skin is mad," says Mulgan. In Britain, the average salary for an Indian is almost double that of a Pakistani and, across Europe, the Chinese do better at work and at school than native whites. So an employer could fill its antidiscrimination quota and still do nothing to help minorities at the bottom of the ladder...
...best way to make minorities more upwardly mobile is to get specific - and creative. The French are teaching Chinese to schoolchildren in deprived neighborhoods so they can get into the global economy. Meanwhile, in Britain, research shows that the biggest hurdle for young Pakistani and Bangladeshi males isn't a lack of skills, but a mix of discrimination and trouble getting access to networks. So job centers in predominantly Asian neighborhoods are trying to convince employers to offer more entry-level jobs or take in more provisional employees for some workplace experience. Instead of relying on sweeping national policies...
...similar program in Bradford, England, is all about the kids, too. In a three-day riot in 2001, hundreds of young Asian men destroyed dozens of white-owned businesses, straining relations between the city's 15% Pakistani population and its white residents. Working for Education Bradford, the private company that runs Bradford's schools, Angie Kotler noticed that the inner-city students, who are over 90% nonwhite, had little contact with the students attending the majority-white schools on the periphery. So she set up the Schools Linking Project, twinning schools and having their students meet up regularly to play...