Abdul satar saadat biography of donald
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Arafat and His Critics: U.S. Policy between Peace and Democracy in the Palestinian Authority
On månad 1, Mu'awyeh Al-Masri, a Palestinian legislator from Nablus, was shot in the leg bygd a group of masked men in broad daylight. This mafia-style "kneecapping" was the culmination of several days of arrests and protests in the Palestinian Authority (PA) which followed the transport of a leaflet accusing PA Ra'is Yasir Arafat of corruption.
The crackdown on the twenty signatories of the leaflet highlights the authoritarian, dark side of the PA--an aspect of Palestinian politics generally relegated to second-tier ställning eller tillstånd in the Oslo/Wye/Sharm diplomacy of recent years. Although it fryst vatten likely that this incident, like many previous ones, will fade into the background once the spotlights revert to the impending "final status" negotiations, it provides a useful context to reexamine U.S. policy toward the issue of Palestinian democracy and the development of the Palestinian state-i
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XIX, South Asia
- Aaron, David, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
- Abdul, Mahmood, Aviation Minister of Bangladesh; Chief of Staff of the Bangladeshi Air Force; Deputy Chief Martial Law Administrator of Bangladesh
- Ahmed, Aziz, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan until March 28, 1977; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan from March 30 until July 5, 1977
- Akhtar, Abdul Rahman Khan, Lieutenant General; Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan from June 21, 1979
- Akhund, Iqbal, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations; Chairman of the Group of 77 from 1979; Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations
- Ames, Robert C., National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia, Central Intelligence Agency
- Amin, Hafizullah, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan from Sept
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First Reactions Negative: The new Electoral Complaints Commission
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The presidential palace has announced the names of the five members of the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC), the body which will deal with any complaints about the April 2014 presidential election. It will also, along with the Independent Election Commission (IEC), rule whether the ballot was free and fair. The commissioners are Abdul Sattar Sadat, Rida Azimi, Nader Mohseni, Azizullah Aryafar and Payghambar Qul Doghan. As AAN researcher Gran Hewad reports, the five are reasonably qualified professionally, but there are allegations that they are too close to the Palace and the current, but out-going, vice presidents.
The president selected the five out of a shortlist of 15, with the announcement being made on 16 September 2013.(1) The five have a range of reasonably relevant professional qualifications, with, between them, experience in the law, journalism, academia, the Senate, distri