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View from Islamabad: Quality, pricing key issues in trade with Afghanistan

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistan's new prime minister, within weeks of taking charge has made populist promises, bound to create fresh challenges for the country's political and economic future.

View from Islamabad: Country's growth needs to recover sharply

The two messages on Afghanistan could not have been more timely. As Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN Secretary General's special envoy for Afghanistan warned against ignoring a badly needed reconstruction effort, General Tommy Franks, head of the US central command, sought to widen the anti-terrorist hunt beyond the central Asian country.

View from Islamabad: Foreign reserves to be invested offshore

View from Islamabad: About leadership and opportunity

View from Islamabad: Defence show will help boost country's exports

General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, must find himself buoyed with several events on the external and home turfs. A trip to New York to attend the annual session of the UN's General Assembly also marked a useful opportunity for a one to one meeting with U.S. President George Bush, which only drove home the point that the general has the backing of the world's singular super power.

View from Islamabad: Economic improvement must reach the masses

A cluster of pro-democracy activists locked behind bars as Pakistan celebrated its 61st anniversary marking the March 23 resolution of 1940 when Muslims of a united India resolved to create a separate homeland, spells a bitter moment in the country's history.

The ten year economic dev-elopment plan announced by Pakistan's military government to imp-rove healthcare, education and housing facilities, is a bold effort to put a brave face on an otherwise difficult situation.

Even if the logic of using the death sentence works in theory, the practical dimension of this choice raises fundamentally significant questions