DEVELOPMENT:  EU Looks Away from Pakistan
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BRUSSELS, Jun 15 (IPS) - Pakistan is the world's seventh largest  country but it does not receive a proportionate level of  attention from European Union officials dealing with foreign  relations.
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European Union leaders already bicker about the future. At a summit meeting opening Thursday, even the past is bound to cause discord.Comment
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Pakistanâs recent past is a numbing rush of political scandals and upheavals -- an environment in which a leaderâs clothing decisions would seem hardly worth attention.
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The European Union expressed concerns about Pakistan's general elections, urging authorities to improve arrangements for next week's polls and free political detainees.
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The European Union's executive arm urged Pakistan to "stay the course" in a peace drive with its neighbour India, welcoming Islamabad's role in enhancing stability in its troubled region.
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European nations need to think more seriously about how terrorism affects them, even in such far-off places as Afghanistan, NATO's secretary-general said Thursday.
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The European Union on Monday  raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's  breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan reacted sharply on Wednesday to criticism in the Security Council (SC) that it was not âdoing enoughâ to bring stability to Afghanistan.
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Voting in Pakistan's parliamentary election went better than expected, but conditions during the campaign period favored the ruling party, European Union monitors said Wednesday.
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Pakistan&#39;s Gen Pervez Musharraf is rarely out of the news. However, his recent speech to the UN, in which he demanded action to prevent an iron curtain separating the Muslim world from the West, gained him an unusual amount of attention.
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Analysis: Border disputes and Chinese ties with Pakistan have long divided them, but business could bring them together
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France and the European Union on Wednesday offered Pakistan help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.
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South Asia is no longer a &quot;nuclear flashpoint&quot; as Islamabad and New Delhi have made &quot;considerable progress&quot; on nuclear confidence-building measures, Pakistan said on Wednesday.
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President Pervez Musharraf pledged to hold free elections as he began a European trip on Monday aimed at bolstering outside support, but urged the West not to hold Pakistan to unrealistic rights standards.
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Urdu Times (news) Pakistan and Italy on Tuesday voiced total consonance on the UN reforms with President Pervez Musharraf saying Pakistan is against creation of more centres of privileges in the United Nations ...
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said Afghanistan must stop blaming his country for the Taliban-led insurgency, while NATO's top commander asked for more troops to battle the violence.
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The current mindset in Pakistan appears to be flexible on the Kashmir issue. Similarly, flexibility is needed from the Indian side.