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...Another renowned miniaturist, the Pakistani Muhammad Imran Qureshi, has contributed an installation entitled "Changing Times." In the pools of light coming through the exhibition venue's French windows, he has painted the delicate foliage common to traditional miniatures. They were executed at different moments of the day, indicating the passage of time, but also the ravages of history: it is as if the building's marble floors are witnesses to Afghanistan's eras of light and destruction. Some are filled in completely, others are more fragmented, as if indicating the slow state of reconstruction in Afghanistan today...
...upwards of $1 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times. "As a long friend of Pakistan, China understands it is facing some financial difficulties," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang at a briefing with journalists on Oct. 16. Other new measures include the increase of access Pakistani goods will have in China's markets as well as agreements to launch special economic zones within Pakistan with tax incentives for Chinese companies...
...become a kind of brand now, not just of extremism but a model of society,” Rashid said. That “brand” largely moved into tribal areas of Pakistan after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. There, they trained virtually unimpeded until the Pakistani army began to intervene in 2004. Rashid said the United States’s lack of focus on rebuilding and stabilizing Afghanistan was a major reason the Taliban was able to regain power and gain new recruits. “How did we get here?” he asked...
...presentation lasted less than an hour, but the question session afterwards took almost as long. Audience members raised detailed empirical challenges to her conclusions about the Pakistani case...
Ashcroft v. Iqbal A Pakistani man will argue that former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other government officials are responsible for discrimination and abuse he received while under arrest...