Saturday 29 December 2007

Benazir Bhutto: Victim of her game in Afghanistan?

It was during Bhutto's rule that the Taliban gained prominence in Afghanistan. She viewed the Taliban as a group that could stabilize Afghanistan and enable trade access to the Central Asian republics, according to author Stephen Coll.[1] He claims that her government provided military and financial support for the Taliban, even sending a small unit of the Pakistani army into Afghanistan.

More recently, she took an anti-Taliban stance, and condemned terrorist acts allegedly committed by the Taliban and their supporters...
However, it was a bit late! infants of terror under her system care became a monster out of control. Read the updated text of her life in wikipedia: click here.
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1: S. Coll, "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001", Penguin Press HC, U.S. 2004.

Monday 10 December 2007

Introduction to Anti-Money laundering

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Thursday 6 December 2007

effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian macroeconomy

Our recent working paper on " the effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian macroeconomy" can be downloaded from here.

your comments are highly welcome.

Monday 3 December 2007

Ranking of Economics Journals

Ranking of economics journals in 2007 and 2006 can be found here.