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The ruling triggered the collapse of the younger Sharif's Punjab provincial government as Zardari moved swiftly to impose Governor's Rule, handing over control of the only province his coalition did not control to a key ally, Salmaan Taseer. The Sharifs have since been mounting public rallies, inflaming opposition...
Rana, the expert on militancy, has seen an accompanying rise in extremist activity. He estimates that 60% of all terrorist attacks in Pakistan since 2002 have originated in the Punjab. "What the militant groups are doing now," says political analyst and academic Ayesha Siddiqa, "is recruiting people and sending them...
Ali al-Dabbagh, the government spokesman, told the same press conference that "what happened today will not undermine overall security improvements." But Iraq is by no means out of the woods. Increasingly acrimonious divisions between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his expanding list of political rivals could deepen as...
Easier credit fueled a rush of small business start-ups and car sales (admittedly the last thing São Paulo's insufferable traffic needed). Even the wine market, once a purely upscale domain, has been democratized. São Paulo wine retailer Expand has seen sales of its mid...
Mumbai has always been the heartbeat of India. An attack on that city is an assault not just on a financial capital but on a national cultural identity seen through the prism of Bollywood movies and on a pluralistic ideal embodied in its diverse masses. Pakistan has no such geographic...