The month-long controversy surrounding the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill has still not ended in Pakistan. Its opponents fear that this bill which provides $7.5 billion in non-military aid to Pakistan over five years will curb the sovereignty of the country, while its

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Rare is the occasion on which the anti-Syrian camp in Lebanon agrees with the regime in Damascus. But even though the Western-backed March 14 bloc's Saad Hariri is heading his first government and even though the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority tries