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	<title>Aboard The Democracy Train</title>
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		<title>Pak Government Warns Millions May be Affected by Floods Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, May 16: About 29 million people could be affected from possible floods in 2012, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) official warned on Wednesday. Warning all provincial governments of the possible flood-related devastation, NDMA Chairman Zafaq Iqbal said there would be more monsoon rains this year. He said “the NDMA has asked for Rs20 billion from provincial governments to start &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/pak-government-warns-millions-may-be-affected-by-floods-again">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Mumtaz Bhutto&#8217;s party merges with Sharif&#8217;s PML (N)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years later, as I flew to Larkana to interview the aristocratic Mumtaz Bhutto at his ancestral home, I found he had also not forgiven the PPP “riff raff” for their challenge to the feudal lords. With his cool demeanor and long moustache, Mumtaz spoke slow clipped sentences in British English. It established his credentials as a barrister-at-law from Lincoln’s Inn, &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/mumtaz-bhuttos-party-merges-with-sharifs-pml-n">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Ex MNA from Kohistan Threatens Working Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANSEHRA, May 5: Former Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA from Kohistan Maulvi Abdul Haleem on Saturday warned women working in non-governmental organisations against entering his district and said violators of the warning would be forcibly married off to locals. “I issued a decree during Friday sermon that getting education for degrees by women is repugnant to Islamic injunctions because if a woman &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/ex-mna-from-kohistan-threatens-working-women">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tharis See Meteor Fly through Desert&#8217;s Night Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MITHI, May 5: People living in a village of Thar district said they had seen a mysterious flying object come crashing down on a school building late on Friday night. Some villagers even said they were sure that the object was a meteorite. The object struck Ladki village of Diplo taluka, 60 kilometres from here. It caused a small crater &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/tharis-see-meteor-fly-through-deserts-night-sky">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Desertification is Creeping Cancer of Feudal Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without fair access to land, peasant and farm workers in Pakistan have no reason to protect land from desertification (© DfID/Flickr) Land is a critical productive asset and the majority of livelihoods in the dry lands of the developing world depend on it. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is one of the main environmental treaties, borne out of &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/desertification-is-creeping-cancer-of-feudal-society">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>India may open more land routes for trade with Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE, May 8: India is willing to look at more land border transit points with Pakistan and opening new border crossings at places like Munnabao in Rajasthan is a possibility , Sharat Sabharwal, India&#8217;s high commissioner to Pakistan said on Monday. He was addressing the inaugural session of the 2nd Aman Ki Asha Indo-Pak Economic Conference . At present, Attari-Wagah &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/india-may-open-more-land-routes-for-trade-with-pakistan">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>US Marks Bin Laden’s Exit Anniversary with Fanfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David Petraeus. “The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make (Vice President Joe) Biden take over the presidency,” the al-Qaida leader &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/us-marks-bin-ladens-exit-anniversary-with-fanfare">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>British Humanitarian Aid Worker Found Beheaded in Quetta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamabad, April 29: The beheaded corpse of a British aid worker has been discovered in the Pakistani city of Quetta, almost four months after he was kidnapped. The body of Khalil Rasjed Dale was left on a road outside the city, in southern Baluchistan province, with a note attached which said he had been killed because a ransom had not &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/british-humanitarian-aid-worker-found-beheaded-in-quetta-pk">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Where have Washington’s Pakistan Experts Gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something is missing in Washington, and I’m not referring to bipartisanship. I’m talking about Pakistan expertise. Last year, Shuja Nawaz, head of The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, lamented the exodus of Pakistan experts from Washington policy-making jobs. Yet this only represents the tip of the iceberg. Scan the speaker rosters of the city’s think-tank symposia, study the bylines of &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/where-have-washingtons-pakistan-experts-gone">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Pak Prime Minister Gilani Down But Not Out &#8211; Yet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, April 26— Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt for defying its orders to reopen an old corruption case against the president, but the justices spared Gilani any prison time. The sentence was symbolic, lasting only until judges left the courtroom. But Gilani’s political future remains clouded with the possibility that he could &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/pak-prime-minister-gilani-down-but-not-out-yet">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>After the Death the Doctor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, April 23: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Monday began an inspection of all passenger planes operated by private airlines after a near-miss in Karachi that came just two days after a fatal crash in Islamabad. The checks were ordered on Sunday after a Shaheen Air flight with 178 people on board narrowly avoided disaster when its left rear tyre &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/after-the-death-the-doctor">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>What Choices for Hindu Girls in Pakistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 18, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ruled that the three Hindu women who had been converted to Islam, Rinkel Kumari, Dr Lata Kumari and Aasha Kumari, should decide if they want to return to their parents or stay with their new husbands. All three stated that they had willingly converted to Islam and wanted to live with their &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/what-choices-for-hindu-girls-in-pakistan">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Probe Launched on Links between Pak Jail Break and Afghanistan Attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PESHAWAR, April 16: Authorities on Monday removed four senior officials over a jail break in the restive northwest and launched a probe into whether it had any link to multiple attacks in Afghanistan. The provincial government said a “total failure” of intelligence was to blame for the break-out, in which dozens of inmates including Taliban militants and death row prisoners &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/probe-launched-on-links-between-pak-jail-break-and-afghanistan-attacks">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Glacial Surge Buried Soldiers at Siachen &#8211; Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neither it was the cloudburst nor the avalanche but the “glacier surge” that buried the men stationed at Siachen, Arshad H Abbasi, an expert on water and climate changes, told The News. “Glacier surge is phenomena caused either by rise in temperature or some tectonic movement, where a glacier advances substantially, moving at velocities up to 100 times faster than &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/glacial-surge-buried-soldiers-at-siachen-expert">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>SC Verdict Leaves Hindu Girls Conversion Issue Unresolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, April 18: The chief justice was in a hurry for once. In just the second hearing on Wednesday of a case related to the conversion of three Hindu women, a Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, wrapped up the case and announced its judgment. The three young women present in the court were told to &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/sc-verdict-leaves-hindu-girls-conversion-issue-unresolved">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Indo-Pak Civilians Renew Calls to Demilitarize Siachen Glacier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, April 11 — Pakistan and India’s military standoff in the frozen high mountains of Kashmir is not only costing soldiers’ lives, experts say — it is also wreaking havoc on the environment. A huge avalanche on Saturday devastated Pakistan’s Gayani army camp on the fringes of the Siachen Glacier, where Pakistani and Indian soldiers brave bitter conditions to eyeball &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/indo-pak-civilians-renew-calls-to-demilitarize-siachen-glacier">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Zardari Yatra Eggs on Indo-Pak Peace Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more unheralded achievements of the PPP government has been the way it has repaired relations from the nadir of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, when war seemed a very realistic possibility. Rather than try to be overly ambitious, the government has cautiously taken small steps towards lasting peace, with trade and regular high-level meetings inching the process forward. &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/zardari-yatra-eggs-on-indo-pak-peace-process">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Turf Wars Heat up on Pak-Afghan Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JALOZAI, April 8 &#8211; Banmaroo stands in the dust, tears rolling down her cheeks as she recalls how her husband was killed in Pakistan’s latest battle zone on the Afghan border. “He was just a labourer. Firing started. I don’t know who killed him, but I was handed his body in the afternoon. It was in such a rough condition, &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/turf-wars-heat-up-on-pak-afghan-border">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>REVIEW By Muneeza Shamsie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1984, Nafisa Hoodbhoy became the first woman reporter at Pakistan’s leading English daily, Dawn, which had hitherto employed women journalists on its full-time staff only at desk jobs, as editors and subeditors. For a young woman reporter to travel to remote, conservative areas of Pakistan was both unusual and courageous. Hoodbhoy’s lively, and at times daring, eyewitness account provides many insights into Pakistan during her 16 years at Dawn.</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/review-by-muneeza-shamsie">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Curfew imposed in Gilgit after Sectarian Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GILGIT, April 4 &#8211; The authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders to the law enforcement agencies to maintain law and order situation after 17 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in sectarian violence in Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday. The attacks led to an army deployment and imposition of curfew in the city, confining the inhabitants to their homes, as the situation &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com/curfew-imposed-in-gilgit-after-sectarian-violence">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
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