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A Guardian columnist wrote an article this week entitled “Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it.” He opened the article with “For most of my adult life I’ve railed against “corporate capitalism”, “consumer capitalism” and “crony capitalism”. It took me a long time to see that the problem is not the adjective but the noun. While some people have rejected capitalism gladly and…

Dr Aafia Siddiqui “does not want to come back to Pakistan” and reports of her possible repatriation are “mere chatter”, according to Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal. (Source: pakobserver)

On April 9, the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty reported: “On April 7, 2010, a revolution occurred in Kyrgyzstan, which resulted in the removal of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his confidants.