December 24, 2005

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Afghanistan: where does it go from here? WITH the swearing-in ceremony of the members of parliament in Kabul on December 19, Afghanistan enters a new phase of its political life. President Hamid Karzai, expressing confidence in his country’s...		A case for renaming the NWFP HOW are countries or cities named? Is there some meaning or rationale behind the nomenclature given to a defined geographical entity or does it come about as a result of the whims of a person or some other innocuous reason....
The question of ‘riba’ revisited SIX years ago, on December 23, 1999, the Shariat Appellate Bench (SAB) of the Supreme Court of Pakistan issued its well-known judgment on the question of riba....