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GeoPolitics: "Importance of Pakistan:
"Pakistan is an American ally which the United States needs, both to balance growing Chinese influence in and partnership with Pakistan, and to contain India. Pakistan needs the United States for the same reason. Meanwhile, the Taliban want to run Afghanistan. The United States has no strong national interest in how Afghanistan is run so long as it does not support and espouse transnational jihadism. But it needs its withdrawal to take place in a manner that strengthens its influence rather than weakens it, and Pakistan can provide the cover for turning a retreat into a negotiated settlement." Read more: Pakistan and the U.S. Exit From Afghanistan | STRATFOR
Neighbors - Afghanistan
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Pakistan's stability is of great consequence to regional and international security. Examine the roots of its challenges, what it means for the region and the world, and explore some plausible futures for the country with this CFR Crisis Guide.
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- Economist.com: Country briefing on Pakistan
India - Pakistan relations
Update 11/25/08
Pakistan to embrace India?
"He dismissed the first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict and proposed the opening of the country's markets to free trade with its much larger neighbour. The bold overtures from Islamabad to New Delhi are coming thick and fast. Only last month, Mr Zardari, fresh from meetings with Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, and US president George W. Bush, branded insurgents in Muslim majority Kashmir “terrorists”. The insurgents have been traditionally regarded as freedom fighters in Pakistan....Mr Zardari’s talk of nuclear non-proliferation and a European Union-style economic zone" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dad434fc-b98b-11dd-99dc-0000779fd18c.html
Mr Zardari's weekend comments follow an earlier breakthrough. Only last month, the Pakistani president described militants in Kashmir as "terrorists", a shift from a long-standing Pakistani policy of extending "moral and diplomatic support" to insurgents in the territory.
Pakistan spy agency dissolves its 'political wing'
Economic Development - Encouraging Entrepreneurship
Kauffman Foundation Paper Outlines Applied
'Expeditionary Economics' Growth Model for Pakistan
Entrepreneur-led development could create a "virtuous circle" of growth and reform to overcome violence and weak governance where traditional development programs have failed
A new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation outlines a strategic growth model for Pakistan and other fragile states by assessing barriers to growth and examining research on the impact of entrepreneurship on developing economies.
Author Robert Looney, professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, applies the Expeditionary Economics approach developed by the Kauffman Foundation, coupled with elements of Pakistan's New Growth Framework, in a prescription for accelerated, sustainable growth.
Looney highlights trade liberalization and other improvements to the nation's business climate as the most important factors in stimulating entrepreneurial growth at Pakistan's current stage of development. He explores how entrepreneurial activity could be better enabled in the short term even without major improvements in governance, paving the way for the emergence of a new stakeholder group of Pakistani entrepreneurs to initiate ongoing reforms that support sustainable growth.
The paper, titled "Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development: A Framework for Applied Expeditionary Economics in Pakistan," is the fifth in the Kauffman Foundation's Expeditionary Economics Research series, which explores the role of entrepreneurs - and how best to enable them - in the economic development of fragile states.
This and all papers in the Kauffman Expeditionary Economics Research Series are available for download at www.expeditionaryeconomics.org.
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