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News from South Asia: Dubai talks, Karzai plot, Props for India’s security plans |
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“If poor people don’t even have enough for bread, how will they donate milk to the gods?” he said. “This is very serious.”
Rising food prices are taking a toll all over the world. In India, the cost of food is keeping people from making food donations to temples. Donations of milk are down fifty percent, according to one priest.
Pakistan’s coalition government leaders Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari are meeting in Dubai this week to iron out the details for the reinstatement of Pakistan’s deposed Supreme Court judges. The self-imposed deadline has passed without an agreement, but both sides are still working to resolve the outstanding issues.
According to the BBC, these negotiations the first real test of the new coalition government, and Pakistan’s Dawn is calling Sharif’s trip to Dubai a “last-ditch attempt to save the one-month-old coalition government from collapsing”.
“There (is) very, very strong evidence suggesting that Pakistan’s soil once again has been used to inflict pain on our nation.”
Recent reports claim Monday’s assassination attempt against Afghan President Hamid Karzai was planned in Pakistan. Despite these claims, little evidence has surfaced to suggest the government of Pakistan was involved.
India “got a pat on its back” for its 206-report detailing the ways in which it will “ensure foolproof safety” at its nuclear plants.
That’s what’s going on in South Asia; what’s going on in your part of the world?
