Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Pakistan/Afghanistan region lecture 2

Well, the speaker was down with malaria, so there was no lecture, but there were Afghans, Pakistani, Indians and Chinese in the room (we love Wageningen!) so it turned out more than fine. And the food was great, we brought some home...

Robert Fisk (on TV) said: They want freedom from us.
Afghanistan said: If you respect an Afghan he'll pay you with double respect. He can be your biggest friend or your worst enemy.
Pakistan said: We don't want Kashmir, we don't need Kashmir, we want Kashmir to be independent if this is the will of its people.
India said: Deviding the region along the religious and ethnic lines was an idea of the British and it was unnecesary.
China said: We don't want to be second America.
Pakistan said: International AID should have gone for the higher education and not the primary education - it did not work.
Afghanistan said: We are a fragile state.
China said: All we do is pure business.
Angela from Studium Generale said: I expected more political activism here.

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