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In Pakistan underworld, a cop is said to be a king By By SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ADIL JAWAD, Associated Press, March 30, 2013 KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A corrupt, low-level cop with a healthy dose of street smarts rises to control hundreds of illegal gambling dens in Pakistan's largest city. By doling out millions of dollars in illicit proceeds, he protects his empire and becomes one of the most

Education, Police Reform, and Personal Responsibility Necessary to Stop Sectarian Violence in Pakistan Hassan Abbas, professor of international security studies at National Defense University; and Knox Thames, director of policy and research at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom visited the South Asia Center on March 13 to discuss ethnic and sectarian violence in Pakistan.

Af-Pak Debate: Across the Border Thursday, 14 March 2013 14:40 Written by TOLOnews.com In the first show of a series of Afghanistan-Pakistan debates, On Soy-e Marz, or, Across the Border, TOLOnews and Pakistan's Express TV jointly discuss how the two countries can move forward in fight against terrorism, with panelists in Kabul and Islamabad studios. Former Afghan spy chief Amrullah Saleh

The REAL reason the U.S. failed in Afghanistan Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy, March 15, 2013 Why did the U.S. fail in Afghanistan? (I know we are pretending to have succeeded, but that's just camouflage to disguise what is in fact an embarrassing if predictable defeat). The reasons for our failure are now being debated by people like Vali Nasr and Sarah Chayes, who have offered contrasting

Sectarian and Ethnic Violence Escalates in Pakistan By Catherine Cheney, World Political Review, Trend Lines, March 5, 2013 A bomb blast in a Shiite district of Karachi, Pakistan, killed at least 45 people Sunday in the latest example of escalating sectarian and ethnic violence in the country. Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani government official who is now an academic and a senior

International Seminar on Islam Without Sectarianism Date: Sunday, March 10, 2013: Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Venue: Studio R, The Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Register at: http://islamwithoutsectarianism.eventbrite.com/ And hold fast, all together, unto the bond with God, and do not draw apart from one another.And remember the blessings which God has bestowed upon you: how, when