Posts tagged with corruption
Marc Roberts, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Zuhra Bahman, Thursday, August 7, 2008
I had an accident. (Actually, I want to shout that I almost died!) I
was being driven from Mazar e Sharef in Northern Afghanistan to Kabul
and we got caught up in a 10-car pile- up. There were three of us in
the car: the driver, my brother and me. None of us got too badly hurt.
In our vehicle the main casualties were my laptop, which broke in half,
and our mobiles which got nicked as we ran for safety, expecting an
eleventh car to smash into ours.
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Zuhra Bahman, Tuesday, August 5, 2008
If I got a pound for every time someone asked me to take care as I
talked about visiting Kabul I’d be a millionaire by now. I do promise
to take good care of myself, and I mean it, but as soon as I reach my
city of birth I feel safer than ever. This safety is not logical, of
course, because statistically Kabul is getting more and more dangerous
with the rising number of suicide bombings, kidnappings and armed
robberies. Perhaps my feeling of safety comes from sentimentality;
pure irrational love and deep sympathy for my city. I love everything
about my city, its people, its ever increasing paved roads, its ugly
glass buildings, the great kabab, sheer yakh (Afghan ice cream)...
Louisa Waugh, Wednesday, June 11, 2008
This week marks a year since Hamas bludgeoned their way to power in
Gaza. It has been a hell of a year here, with Israel sealing the entire
Gaza Strip and imposing a crippling siege on 1.5 million people, whilst
the so-called ‘International Community’ shamelessly continues to look
the other way. It’s easy to forget that, before they took over Gaza,
Hamas was democratically voted into office because the previous
Palestinian Fatah Government was rotten with corruption, and
Palestinians wanted a new political era.
Dinyar Godrej, Friday, May 9, 2008
Ever got a bum deal when changing money in a foreign country? Here’s an exchange rate scam to beat them all.
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Vanessa Baird, Monday, April 30, 2007
It was just sitting there, waiting to happen – the Paul Wolfowitz corruption scandal.
But over so small a thing! I don’t want to belittle the World Bank
chief’s actions, but using his position to ensure a plum job (salary
$200,000) for his lover Shaha Riza is chicken feed by World Bank
standards.
