'It is important for General Musharraf ...not to defer the elections, not to impose the emergency and to make sure that those elections are credible and satisfy the public....I am looking [to] saving my country from a militant takeover, God forbid, d
Amidst a flurry of rumors about impending emergency rule in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has warned that, without a peaceful transfer of power, Pakistan might witness a Ukrainian-style Orange Revolution with a difference.
By designating India a virtual guest member of the official nuclear club, the Bush administration has reaffirmed to the world its willingness to pay a large price for a strategic partnership with Asia's second biggest nation.
Intensified international trading affects the environment-- increased fishing, destruction of forestland, and the spread of polluting industries --but it also raises global awareness.
Whatever can be done, will be done, says the author of the Flat World. Outsourcees can and are becoming the outsourcer, while globalization is actually making people far more aware of the issues of climate change...
...But Change the Subject: Nuclear North Korea returns to the negotiating table in the hope of consolidating its gain through bipartite talks with the US.
The foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and author of The World Is Flat on the new edition of his book, what he thinks of Indian education system, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in China, Hamas, the cartoon controversy, Iraq a
The New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author argues that not only has the world shrunk to a tiny size thanks to a communication revolution, it has even been flattened.
The former US President on WMD in Iraq: 'Maybe it's still there, maybe it is buried, maybe he sent it to Syria. No one really knows". He thinks NATO - headed by an American - should take charge in Iraq, and offers other ideas for the Middle East.
