Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish.
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Ali Ettefagh
Tehran, Iran
Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East.
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the basic problem of pakistan is that it came into being as an islamic state or as a state where muslims are a defacto majority but does not have the sharia law which is the essence of an islamic state from my understanding of islam.Minus the sharia pakistans reason to exist ceases but the elite of the country do not want the sharia because they know that it implies being transported back in time.
I agree. Pakistan is part of the Al Qaeda problem and it is the home to the main problem of terror. All that drug money is helping the case and keeps the competition for corruption alive.
A true and realistic summary of Pakistan today.
The analysis of The New York Times (link below) seems to confirm the article above. The words of American Embassy "struggling" is a stark warning on bad days ahead. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/asia/23assess.html
Indeed a very clear picture of a murky, uncertain an unstable Pakistan.
It is time to put Pakistan to a hard international test and, if necessary, suspend its sovereign rule and set up something like Germany after WWII and a de facto control of its main affairs by an international coalition, including Russia and China...before the powder keg of terror+drugs blows up.
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the basic problem of pakistan is that it came into being as an islamic state or as a state where muslims are a defacto majority but does not have the sharia law which is the essence of an islamic state from my understanding of islam.Minus the sharia pakistans reason to exist ceases but the elite of the country do not want the sharia because they know that it implies being transported back in time.
September 8, 2008 7:23 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on September 8, 2008 19:23
Right you are, definitely! This article in the Financial Times tells us a lot about that country:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c186d52-72f0-11dd-983b-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
August 26, 2008 2:59 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 26, 2008 02:59
I agree. Pakistan is part of the Al Qaeda problem and it is the home to the main problem of terror. All that drug money is helping the case and keeps the competition for corruption alive.
August 26, 2008 2:47 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 26, 2008 02:47
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/washington/26diplo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
What a mess!
August 26, 2008 2:34 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 26, 2008 02:34
A true and realistic summary of Pakistan today.
The analysis of The New York Times (link below) seems to confirm the article above. The words of American Embassy "struggling" is a stark warning on bad days ahead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/world/asia/23assess.html
August 23, 2008 4:31 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 23, 2008 04:31
Indeed a very clear picture of a murky, uncertain an unstable Pakistan.
It is time to put Pakistan to a hard international test and, if necessary, suspend its sovereign rule and set up something like Germany after WWII and a de facto control of its main affairs by an international coalition, including Russia and China...before the powder keg of terror+drugs blows up.
August 23, 2008 3:15 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on August 23, 2008 03:15