More US troops in Afghanistan - will it help?

Below is what I felt is a really interesting debate - a former prime minister of Afghanistan, a Pakistani security expert and an American journalist discuss the increase of troops. The guests are chosen very well in that they really represent completely different attitudes and points of view - each of them is coming from [...]

Camels and Drug Trafficking

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 12:19 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The situation of women better in Nimruz province than elsewhere in Afghanistan

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 12:10 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Somali fighters imposing “Islamic” rule

Saturday, 20 December 2008, 18:42 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Democracy in Indonesia

Friday, 19 December 2008, 9:01 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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The birth control debate in the Philippines

Friday, 19 December 2008, 8:52 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Mumbai attacks highlight class divide

Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 15:26 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Mumbai attackers will not have an Islamic burial

Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 12:28 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Indian Muslims say the values of the terrorists are not Islamic and therefore they have no right to be buried at a Muslim cemetery.

The regime in Turkmenistan

(and there’s a funny jab at facebook at the end of the clip)

Shahrukh interviewed about 26/11

Since the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai a lot has been said in Bollywood about it. People want and need to talk about it and I guess that understandably the media wants to cover celebrities’ reactions to it.
Some of the reactions have been extremely emotional (people cancelling their film shoots and/or any trips outside the city), [...]