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NY Times: Iran Reacts to Pressure From America
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised on Sunday that Iran would deliver “an unforgettable response” to any “improper actions” from the United States over an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (Details)
The Economist: Post-revolutionary Tunisia – Moving Ahead
Frustration and uncertainty persist, but the country is heading the right way. Compared with the other upheavals across the Arab world this year, Tunisia’s is still the runaway winner. Since the country’s dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, with his greedy wife, Leila Trabelsi, flew off into a Saudi twilight on January 14th
Tunisians to vote in historic post-revolution polls
TUNIS: Tunisia, which launched the “Arab Spring” when its outraged citizens ousted a seemingly entrenched dictator in January, again takes the lead with a historic vote Sunday for the drafters of a new constitution.
Fasih Bokhari takes over as NAB chief
ISLAMABAD: Former chief of Pakistan Navy, Admiral (retd) Fasih Bokhari, was formally notified as chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB)
Afghan provincial intel chief targeted in bombing
KABUL: A suicide bomber attacked a car carrying a provincial head of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency on Monday, wounding the spy and killing a child in the north of the country, police said.
Bolivians rebuke Morales in judicial ballot
LA PAZ: Most Bolivians who voted in Sunday’s election to choose the country’s top judges cast invalid ballots in what would be a stinging rebuke for President Evo Morales, according to unofficial partial results.
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‘Islam and democracy are not contradictory’
TUNIS: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the case for “Islam and democracy” on Thursday in Tunisia, where moderate Islamists modelled on his own party are tipped to win landmark October polls
No small matter By Hajrah Mumtaz
MOST people would, at least initially, tend to shrug the matter away. Concerns about people’s ability to question the great and the good in government?
Corporate fraud: Every good boy deserves fudged profits
JIALAN WANG has a fascinating post up (via Kevin Drum, via Tyler Cowen) on apparent telltale mathematical evidence that corporate accounting fraud is a gradual upward trend over the past 30 years. The great thing is, she seems to have compiled this
The Egyptian military's 'pseudo coup' By Juliette Kayyem: Global Public Square
Last Spring, when the world was heralding the events in Egypt, many of us speculated about whether the Egyptian Army's steady hand would mark the beginnings of a pseudo-coup. I never liked the idea that America's interest in supporting the revolutionaries in the street could be so easily placated
Honoured for what? By Huma Yusuf
I HAD barely been at university for two weeks when the buzz began: Nelson Mandela, then president of South Africa, was coming to campus to receive an honorary degree.
Poverty in Pakistan By By M. Zaidi
IN Pakistan’s scenario, where approximately two-thirds of the people live in rural areas, rural poverty is a major destabilising factor. Authoritative studies have documented rising poverty levels with a decreased capacity
Rate spread and SBP’s task By Muhammad Yaqub
COMMERCIAL banks play a key role in the mobilisation of financial savings and the financing of economic activity through financial intermediation between savers and borrowers.
This Middle East power struggle could kill off the Arab spring by David Hearst: Guardian UK
The Iran 'terror plot' drama involves four players who have much to lose from Arab self-determination. Let's hope they fail
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