hamid

Welcome to the 'hamid' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'hamid'.

Are you an expert about 'hamid'? Do you want to be the Technorati authority on 'hamid'? You can write a description that will appear right here: Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hamid”

 

• Proposed law to protect Afghan women faces backlash

  
  — Authority:
  A proposed law to protect Afghan women and girls from abuses such as child marriage, bride barter and spousal abuse has created a furor in the past week, exposing a generational and religious struggle that persists in this traditional Muslim society despite a decade of Western-backed democracy and a constitution that ...
  14 hours ago

• Proposed law to protect Afghan women faces backlash

  
  — Authority:
  A proposed law to protect Afghan women and girls from abuses such as child marriage, bride barter and spousal abuse has created a furor in the past week, exposing a generational and religious struggle that persists in this traditional Muslim society despite a decade of Western-backed democracy and a constitution that ...
  14 hours ago

• Afghanistan’s Karzai Says ‘No Circumstances’ Allow Him to Seek Another Term

  
  — Authority:
  President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has sought to dispel talk that he will find a way to stay in power beyond the two-term limit imposed by the constitution.        
  1 day ago

• EVAW Law to protect women & girls in Afghanistan stalled in Parliament

  
  — Authority:
  WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known as the Wolesi Jirga, has been debating the reversal of a protective law called the EVAW – Elimination Against Violence Women Law. This Law was ...
  5 days ago

• Afghan president Hamid Karzai to seek military aid as he arrives in India

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Karzai is expected to ask India for help with military needs and shortages during three-day visit to subcontinent Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has arrived in Delhi on a three-day visit during which he is expected to ask India to boost its assistance to Afghan armed forces. The request would heighten tensions ...
  5 days ago

• Mukherjee confers degree on Karzai

  
  — Authority:
  Jalandhar, May 20 : President Pranab Mukherjee Monday conferred an honorary degree on Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during the convocation of the Lovely Professional University (LPU) here. read more
  5 days ago

• Afghan suicide attack kills at least 14

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 159
  A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 14 people including a senior local politician, officials said. Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing a police uniform, blew himself up in the ...
  5 days ago

• “Afghanistan to ask India for military aid”

  
  — Authority:
  CBS NEWS/AP KABUL, AFGHANISTANAn aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai’s trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India’s archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border ...
  5 days ago

• At This Point Just About Everybody At The Top Of The University System Should Probably Go

  
  — Authority:
  I have a letter to the editor in today’s Grand Forks Herald objecting to the idea that Chancellor Hamid Shirvani is everything that’s wrong with North Dakota’s university system. While much of the criticism of his management style may be valid, let’s remember that North Dakota’s universities had major ...
  6 days ago

• End of Postcolonialism and the Challenge for ‘Non-European’ Thought

  
  — Authority:
  A lively debate has been going on lately in Al Jazeera, following the question posed by Hamid Dabashi in an article provocatively titled “Can Non-Europeans Think“? Dabashi’s piece, published earlier in January this year was a response to an article by Santiago Zabala, Research Professor of Philosophy at the ...
  6 days ago

• Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row

  
  — Authority:
  An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzais trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, Indias archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan ...
  6 days ago

• Police Officers Are Targets in Wave of Afghan Violence

  
  — Authority:
  Nearly two dozen Afghan police officers and civilians have been killed in the last few days, including a district police official assassinated over a recent anti-Taliban campaign.        
  1 week ago

• Afghanistan Parliament Blocks Anti-Violence Against Women Law

  
  — Authority:
  The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women, a 2009 mandate approved by President Hamid Karzais decree that aims to protect womens rights — specifically, one that bans child marriage and the practice of "baad," selling and buying women to settle disputes — was shot down in Afghani Parliament today. Read ...
  1 week ago

• Return of a King: A Cautionary Narrative for Afghanistan

  
  — Authority:
  by Steven R. Corman Here is a quiz:  In what South Asian war did a country invade to pursue its own interests, overthrow an existing government and establish a client regime, encounter effective resistance by local insurgents despite the superiority of its army, fight to a stalemate, and withdraw when resources and ...
  1 week ago

• Ahead of Karzai visit, India says willing to discuss security concerns

  
  — Authority:
  New Delhi, May 18 : Ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzais visit, India said Saturday it was ready to discuss and consider Afghanistans reported request for arms supplies provided it is raised through the proper fora. read more
  1 week ago

• World Briefing | Asia: Bombs Kill at Least 9 at Gated Community Near Kandahar

  
  — Authority:
  Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside a gated community on Friday evening, killing at least 9 people and wounding more than 70.        
  1 week ago

• Film Review: Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
  — Authority:
  Mira Nair delivers a masterful film that rides high on the minimal expectations of the audiences and turns each scene into a cruel exercise of meeting as well as challenging these expectations, writes Shekhar Deshpande Riz Ahmed in Mira Nair’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” T he events of 9-11 have ...
  1 week ago

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
  — Authority:
  Mira Nairs adaptation of the bestseller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a compelling tale of a man torn between Islamism and capitalism, says Jenny McCartney.        
  1 week ago

• With Approves Increases, Tuition At North Dakota’s Largest Universities Up 115% Since 2002

  
  — Authority:
  Earlier this week the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education went along with a plan for tuition increases promoted by the university presidents and opposed by Chancellor Hamid Shirvani. These are just approved maximums, which technically means that the actual tuition increases might be lower, given the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shivani Accuses Critics Of Racism, Says University Presidents Don’t Want Change

  
  — Authority:
  In a column for the Grand Forks Herald , Chancellor Hamid Shirvani takes the gloves off in responding to some of his critics. This is tough medicine a lot of North Dakotans – especially in the political class – aren’t going to want to hear. BISMARCK — It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about hamid