Source: Boston.com
Pakistan troubles did not end with the resignation last week of former President Pervez Musharraf. On the contrary, the rupture this week of the coalition between the parties of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, suggests that Pakistan’s several overlapping crises are becoming […]

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Source: The Age
UMBRELLAS, cricket bats, kites, peacocks, cows and camels will all play a part when Pakistan goes to polls on Monday.
These are some of the symbols that parties have chosen to represent them in the election contest. Less than half of Pakistan’s 80 million voters can read, so each party needs a symbol on […]

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