Matthew Yglesias » The Dismemberment of Pakistan
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/27/2009 — sheikh_mujibur_rahman For historical reasons related to the geopolitics of the Cold War, the United States has traditionally aligned itself with Pakistan in Pakistan’s conflict with India. Consequently, you often see American pundits gloss the ...

India & Pakistan
bloomberg.com 12/15/2008 — Pakistan’s Stocks Mostly Untraded as Regulator Eases Limit By Khalid Qayum and Farhan Sharif Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan stocks were mostly untraded as the removal of some trading curbs failed to persuade investors to reenter a market shuttered ...

What This Year's Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the Nobel Prize in Economics
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 26 days ago — The reaction of the economics community to Elinor Ostrom's prize will likely be quite different. The reason? If you had done a poll of academic economists yesterday and asked who Elinor Ostrom was, or what she worked on, I doubt that more than one in ...

Pakistan facing bankruptcy
telegraph.co.uk 10/7/2008 — An investor monitors the index at Karachi Stock Exchange in Karachi, Pakistan

Pakistan on the Brink - The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com 5/17/2009 — Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009 Pakistan on the Brink By Ahmed Rashid To get to President Asif Ali Zardari's presidential palace in the heart of Islamabad for dinner is like running an obstacle course. Pakistan's once sleepy capital, full of ...

The Netflix prize has been won
marginalrevolution.com 6/26/2009 — Details of the competition are here .  The winning team is here .  Background on the prize is here .  Previous MR coverage is here . Bravo!  I should note that current "recommender" systems don't much help me make ...

Explosions Rock Pakistan University
cbsnews.com 18 days ago — 3 Deaths Reported after at Least 2 Explosions on International Islamic University Campus

IMF to Bailout Pakistan
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 10/31/2008 — Form the Telegraph: Pakistan to receive $9bn from IMF in fight against bankruptcy Pakistan is to receive a $9bn (£5.5bn) bail-out loan from the International Monetary Fund as the country has three weeks to stave off bankruptcy. ... The IMF agreed in ...

Stop the Nobel Prize Winners!
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'US special squad killed Benazir' | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online
nation.com.pk 5/19/2009 — NEW YORK (Online) - Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and ...