Tag: Reform

I am writing only to clarify economic reforms and their role in our society. I have no issue with any other agenda in the...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal were on Thursday to discuss reforming the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in a bid to...

The rise of political consciousness Nine months into the “Arab Spring,” we surveyed public opinion in seven Arab countries and Iran, asking over 6,000 respondents...

India on Wednesday suspended its decision to open the country's giant retail sector to foreign supermarkets, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said. "The decision...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won promises of further reforms from Myanmar’s rulers in historic talks Thursday, but said it was too soon...

China urged Syria Tuesday to move faster to implement reforms, a week after Beijing infuriated the West by blocking a UN resolution against President...

Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said on Monday that Pakistan would continue to pursue reforms in key areas to achieve sustainable growth. In his...

Italy buckled to world pressure in a bid to halt a market rout endangering the global economy, pledging to speed up austerity measures and...

Bahrain is eager to get back to business after widespread upheaval over the past five months, when a protest movement was crushed by the...

The country is heading towards a new era and state and its institutions should respond to the dynamism, as the reforms process is a...

The government has urgently convened a meeting to force the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) to take rectifying measures to improve the supply of...

Australia’s sports minister said Friday that no government should fund another World Cup bid until FIFA had been subject to external scrutiny. Senator Mark...

Thousands of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in what organisers called a “second revolution” to push for faster reforms and a...

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), while appreciating the fifth round of constructive and productive Secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India, has...

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) asked Pakistan once again on Tuesday to move forward on the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST) and demanded full implementation of all conditions related to the current standby programme before a new one could be worked out, as the US also pressed for the implementation of major structural reforms, without which it said the country would not attain economic stability despite support from Washington and international financial

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday pushed for Arab leaders to embrace a "spirit of reform" that has swept the region and move swiftly to respond to the growing demands of their citizens. "The long Arab winter has begun to thaw," said Clinton on the opening day of the US-Islamic World Forum being held in Washington, praising Arab youth for rising up against "false narratives" that she said had choked political and economic reform for generations.
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WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday pushed for Arab leaders to embrace a "spirit of reform" that has swept the region and move swiftly to respond to the growing demands of their citizens.
"The long Arab winter has begun to thaw," said Clinton on the opening day of the US-Islamic World Forum being held in Washington, praising Arab youth for rising up against "false narratives" that she said had choked political and economic reform for generations.