Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
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- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
- Finding our way through the minefield of globalisation
- Defeated candidate criticizes Iran polls
- Mason holds $830 billion of investors’ money in his hands
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – Jun 26, 2005
Adviser to the Karachi Wholesaler Grocers Association Anis Majeed said: The surplus of chick peas is only 250,000 tonnes. And if exports exceed the surplus quantity, it will affect prices in the local market in Ramadan (expected in October) and we will have to import the commodity from other countries at higher prices. In a letter to Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan, he asked the government to ban the export of home-grown chickpeas and to only allow the export of split chickpeas. A bumper crop of home-grown chickpeas has encouraged exporters to explore the international market and they have earned over $70 million in exports to India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh…
And if exports exceed the surplus quantity, it will affect prices in the local market in Ramadan (expected in October) and we will have to import the commodity from other countries at higher prices. In a letter to Commerce Minister Humayun Akhtar Khan, he asked the government to ban the export of home-grown chickpeas and to only allow the export of split chickpeas. A bumper crop of home-grown chickpeas has encouraged exporters to explore the international market and they have earned over $70 million in exports to India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This year we received around 1 million tonnes of desi chickpeas, said Mr Majeed at the Karachi Wholesaler Grocers Association. Normally we get a crop of around 700,000 to 800,000 tonnes every year which is consumed locally but this year a surplus of 250,000 tonnes has been harvested.
Finding our way through the minefield of globalisation
Jamaica Observer – Jun 26, 2005
In Wignall’s view the case “goes way beyond the home-grown injustice meted out to the poor and the powerless by the high and mighty machinery of government and the shameless intelligentsia of this country”. It is, he argues, a case of Jamaica doing Washington’s bidding. I am not familiar with the details of the case or whether it really rises beyond the level of ‘home-grown injustice’ that has become a staple of the ‘we want justice’ segment of the nightly news on television. What we know is that there is an extradition agreement between Jamaica and the United States that imposes certain treaty obligations and, so a particular detention would not, in and of itself, establish that Patterson or the administration was acting in the interest of the United States. In fact, the reverse could just as easily be argued.
Defeated candidate criticizes Iran polls
International Herald Tribune – Jun 26, 2005
” Who Ahmadinejad will choose to oversee Iran's nuclear policy was still unknown. Faqih said there would be no review of Iran's nuclear policy. “Our nuclear technology is home grown and no one will stop our nuclear development,” Faqih said. But he said a military application of Iran's nuclear development was not on the table. The United States accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, something Iran denies. The president-elect said he wasn't in any hurry to re-establish relations with the United States, which cut diplomatic ties with Iran after its embassy was besieged in 1979 and 52 employees held hostage for 444 days. “The United States was free to cut its ties with Iran but the Iranian government is free to decide about restarting its relationship with the United States as well,” Ahmadinejad said on his Web site.
Mason holds $830 billion of investors’ money in his hands
Baltimore Sun – Jun 26, 2005
“Chip” Mason sat down and pondered the hard part, which hasn’t happened yet. The new clients must stay happy, he said. They have to trust that shifting their investments from. , the largest financial services firm on the planet, to a home-grown operation in Baltimore will be seamless. It’s the riskiest element of Legg Mason’s deal, in which it will shed the brokerage business upon which it was founded and acquire Citigroup’s money management business, Mason said. “I have no idea if this bridge is a real bridge or not,” Mason said.