Here is the verbatim of a cable sent to Washington by Chargé d’Affaires Nicholas Dean on Yunus and Awami League government. Only the sections have been rearranged. Date: November 30, 2009. Title: BANGLADESH PM REMAINS COOL TOWARD NOBEL LAUREATE (CONFIDENTIAL) Ambassador weighs in with Prime Minister ¶5. (C) Fearing GOB displeasure with him would jeopardize Grameen Bank and […]
$10 million dollar reward still offered for Pakistani terrorist
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed founded the violent extremist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which in the 1990s sent Islamist militants to fight Indian troops in Kashmir, and is blamed by US and Indian officials for organizing the 2008 attacks on tourists and commuters in India’s commercial capital. As such the US has offered a $10m (£6m) reward for […]
Kent Lucas Reveals Big Profits in Small-Town USA
A Harvard egghead stumbles through the countryside and finds a diamond in my field! I’m a little upset. I’m the guy who spends all my time in small-town USA, and Kent Lucas, Taipan’s resident Harvard brainiac, recently pointed out to me an opportunity right under my nose. I hate it when that happens. I’ve spent […]
The Zardari We Love and Hate
Why do we love to hate Mr. Zardari? Mian Nawaz Sharif says that he is dismayed and disappointed. The PML-N feels cheated over the fact that despite an agreement between the two parties, Mr. Zardari let them down. For his part, Asif Zardari says that the conditions in which the agreement was signed changed soon […]
iPhone Release
Today was an interesting day for Apple and AT&T. It was the most anticipated smartphone release since last year, when Apple released the iPhone initially, and it left many customers with a bitter taste in their mouth. This morning, at 8 am sharp, both Apple and AT&T opened their doors to a crowd seeking the […]
AT&T: Don’t be a company to hate….
Perhaps we ought to be proud of it, perhaps it ought to be something to see as a status symbol, a sign that we are doing something right, but instead it made us very very angry and upset – our phone bill. For a company that focuses on Networking and Connecting people and does so […]