By DAN GLAZEBROOK In Afghanistan, it is well known that the government’s writ has no authority outside of Kabul, if there. But then, that is the point. The role of the governments imposed on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, like the one they are trying to impose on Syria, is not to govern or provide for [...]
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ASIF HAROON RAJA THE US dream of converting India into an effective bulwark against China had been perceived sometime in the late 1990s when India had got itself fully aligned with USA after the demise of its earlier patron USSR. No other country in Asia was prepared to undertake this role since none have the [...]
SINGAPORE: Islamic finance will likely outpace mainstream banks and top one trillion dollars in total assets this year as demand for ethical investments increase, officials said Monday. But Islamic financial institutions must guard against straying from the basic tenets of Sharia law if they are to avoid the excesses that led to the global economic [...]
