INTRODUCTION: [pic] PICTURE: MAP OF SOUTH ASIA. South Asia comprises the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, as well as the island nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. All told, some 1.73 million square miles make up South Asia. South Asia comprises eight countries including Afghanistan. Agriculture accounts for a significant part of GDP throughout the region, and has grown at a remarkable overall rate during the past
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Pakistan today has a mind-boggling taxation system that defies comprehension of the average citizens and experts alike. In 1990, Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry had established that the industry was subjected to 50 direct and indirect taxes but the statement of Senator Ilyas Bilour, President PFCCI at the Businessmen Conference in Islamabad on March 25, 1997 that 37 govt deprtments and agencies were collecting taxes gives a measure of the proliferation of taxes that has taken place in Pakistan
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Research Article FM RADIO REVOLUTION IN PAKISTAN A case study - By Dr. Ahsan Akhtar Naz* Abstract Introduction Pakistani society is shifting towards change. Media is playing a vital role in this social change. In this regard, FM channels are being considered as more effective medium. These channels are running under the control of Pakistani Government. Now, these are spreading far and wide from metropolitans to towns. Due to this mass acceptance, these channels are acting as leverage of media
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with Afghanistan-Pakistan, a key foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration. It focuses on President Obama's new policy known as AfPak, the Kerry-Lugar Act, and other U.S. initiatives adopted since 2009 in order to help stabilize the situation in South Asia. The author concludes by arguing that the new initiatives will not substantially improve the situation in Pakistan, because they fail to address Pakistan's core problem: lack of strong democratic institutions. Pakistan has many internal
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AFGHANISTAN DONALD HITCHCOCK Soc 300 Soc of Developed Countries August 22, 2012 PROFESSOR: Dawn Mcclanahan ABSTRACT The afghan people have been subject to take over’s, turmoil, and cultural disruptions for many years. Afghanistan is a nation comprised eight different ethnic groups and was founded in 1747 by the Pashtu tribes. The local government went through a transformation in 2004 with the adoption of a new constitution and the election of a new president. Today the nation is in turmoil
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After more than fifty years of Independence, India and Pakistan tackle numerous obstinate predicaments that the British marooned for these novel countries to settle. Kashmir lives to be the solitary of the many legacies of their distrust and uncertainty. The origins of the calamity extend to the tragic partition of the two countries in 1947, when the British government departed India after a rule of 250-years characterized by mistreatment and divide and conquer approaches. The British Empire’s divisive
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to validate their regimes, there are very few governments around the world that would not be termed democratic. Under the rules of electoral head counting it would perhaps be impossible not to accord democratic status even to states like Iraq or Pakistan or North Korea. The leaders in all of these countries and numerous others have sought to legitimize their rule through varying degrees of popular ‘mandates’ and ‘endorsements’. Yet very few of these countries would actually be considered democratic
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be killed. The disagreements, fighting, and killings continue to exist and there does not seem to be a resolution for peace with these people living in the Middle East. According to Ismail, K. (September 22, 2013), a suicide attack in Peshawar, Pakistan on a Christian church killed 78 people and wounded more than 120. The attack happened when the Christian worshipers were dismissed from the service. At this time, all of a sudden, an explosion occurred followed by another. Of the 78 killed, 34 included
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in rewarding citizens, or undertake those countless trips abroad, nor buy ostentatious livery commensurate with their station, except from the debt-infested economy where money can be borrowed at will to fuel their desires. Prime Minister of Pakistan has not only set an ungainly example of how a poor, hapless peoples’ hard earned wealth is laid waste as if it was enemy property, but he has no moral justification in doing so unless he was doing it from his own pocket. In order to atone for
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Contrary to popular belief among Americans, Afghanistan is not a Middle Eastern nation. Don’t feel bad if you were one of them. I didn’t know either until I was preparing to go there myself. Afghanistan is located in Central Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran, and south of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Ok so that’s a lot of "stans" you have likely never heard of. One country that you have all heard of that borders a portion of Afghanistan on the east side is China. Hard to
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