occasion‚ plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president—courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]. All told‚ tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the CIA to the office of President Hamid Karzai.... An American official said‚ ’The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan [is] the United
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Be it the supremely powerful America or the dilemma-plagued African states‚ it is primarily the youth of a nation that forms a concrete bedrock for the achievement and prosperity of a nation. The reins to turn the country around rest with none other than the strong hands of its young generation - its young blood. The same goes for our beloved motherland‚ Pakistan. Pakistan along with its envious strategic location and a plethora of natural resources possesses another exceedingly important resource
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The Ottoman Empire was crumbling--- and they needed someone to blame. In 1915‚ the Ottoman government devised a plan targeting the Armenian minority within their Empire‚ a minority that was already viewed as second class citizens. The article‚ “Armenian Genocide: A Summary” from History.com reported that the Ottoman Empire‚ modern-day Turkey‚ was responsible for the murder of over one million Armenians during what is known today as the Armenian Genocide. However‚ Turkey refuses to acknowledge that
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If the bull is controlled or restrained it can bring about positive change or outcomes. Conflict has the ability to strike us deep and then we are hurt and we will often fight back. When one examined “ The Reluctant Fundamentalist” Changez soon realised that he no longer wanted to work for Underwood Samson “ I don’t want to work for Underwood Samson” or Like Erica when she bottled up her feelings and her sickness. “She had been unwell.” Conflict can make your life
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writer Tayeb Salih (1929 – 2009) was an acclaimed author of the Arab world whose literary works were prominent during the 1960’s. His works are often set in context of colonialism in the Sudan. Throughout Salih’s short stories‚ “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” and “The Wedding of Zein” the importance of tradition and ceremony as aspects of culture are illuminated through the features of Islam‚ oral tradition‚ and the preservation of culture in contrast change and modernism. Salih uses language‚ narrator
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PAK AFGHAN RELATIONS Introduction 1. Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have remained estranged mainly due to Afghanistan’s revanchist claim made about Pakistan’s western province and its non-recognition of the Durand Line as the international border. With a hostile India to the East‚ Pakistan can ill-afford another irredentist neighbor. Since 1947 both countries have interfered in each other’s domestic affairs. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan forced Pakistan to wage a proxy war in Afghanistan
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Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon addresses Australian cultural issues‚ as well as the characters’ personal issues and concerns. How are these issues and concerns made engaging and challenging for an audience? Refer to study and workshop Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon is an engaging and episodic play that employs Australian cultural issues as well as character issues and concerns. These techniques are used effectively through the freedom of practitioners in staging and characterisation
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Influential does not equate with "good" or "positive" behavior. It simply means: powerful‚ important‚ significant‚ dominant or prominent. None of these are synonymous with good. Osama Bin Laden lives thousands of miles away‚ purportedly in a cave‚ and people are talking about him more than Hillary Clinton who is roaming the streets of New York and Washington D.C. quite publicly‚ trying to get attention. This is a woman who could be the first female president in U.S. history. Without a doubt then
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A top Afghan general has said his country may be dangerously exposed if a security pact with the US on its military withdrawal is not signed soon. Washington insists on a 31 December deadline for President Hamid Karzai to sign the pact‚ which sets the terms for US troops to stay on past 2014. Mr Karzai wants to wait until after he leaves office next year. But the head of ground forces‚ Lt Gen Murad Ali Murad‚ told the BBC the army would struggle without US support. Most Nato-led
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derision. The traditional Afghan society has made life difficult for a number of Afghan women who are still living at their father’s house and are not married yet. “Girls who remain single at their parents’ house for a longer time find it shameful to face the people. It is painful for them seeing women of their age that are already married and are a mother. Families should not demand a lot of money from the suitors.” “Some families refuse to give their daughter’s hand‚ because the boy’s family cannot
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