Foreign Affairs committee   that such measures can really have an impact on the government given that those people do business with banks which are not in our world. They deal mainly with Islamic banks from the Gulf. Do you believe that disinvestment measures can improve the situation or accelerate the peace process?

Afghanistan  Mr. Speaker, my colleague's question on this extremely important issue is a very prescient one. I want to deal with the first aspect. We have to be realistic in what we are trying to achieve in the type of environment we are in. This is an Islamic country riven by feudalism

Afghanistan   is not the democratic republic of Afghanistan but the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, and while some may wish to change Afghanistan into a pale replica of us, that is not going to happen. Whatever we do has to be within what the Afghan people want. It has to be what is wanted by the Afghan people

Foreign Affairs committee  . Dewar, is here. This gentleman is the senior advisor to the Independent National Commission on Strengthening Peace and senior policy advisor to the minister of education in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. I'm sure he was being paid from both organizations. He was here giving us

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Honourable committee members, I'm thankful for the opportunity to share my observations and the results of my research and work on Afghanistan. This comes from my living in Afghanistan. I was born there, lived there, studied there, worked there. I am living in Burling

Foreign Affairs committee   Seddiq Weera, senior advisor, Independent National Commission on Strengthening Peace, and senior policy advisor to the Minister of Education in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. In our second hour--he's with us here today--we will hear from retired General Lewis MacKenzie

Procedure and House Affairs committee   was on this, and that very important statement they made that it is not a requirement of Islam that Muslim women stay covered. They would be more than willing to lift their veils if that is the requirement. So I was just in the process of underscoring what I consider to be a fairly significant statement

Foreign Affairs committee  , I wonder if the Pakistani government is not speaking out of both sides of its mouth. Internally, the discourse seems to be pro-Islamic in order to get the people on their side. Outside, the discourse is more conciliatory in order to win support from the Government of Canada

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon, committee. This is meeting 13 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Our orders of the day today include a briefing on the situation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. As witnesses today we

Foreign Affairs   by the parading in the streets of Tehran of a Shahab-3 missile draped in the emblem, “Wipe Israel off the map”, and warning Muslims that those who recognize Israel will burn in the Umma of Islam. Finally, we should not ignore the domestic mass repression in Ahmadinejad's Iran of Iranian

Foreign Affairs   accounts have helped it accumulate comfortable foreign exchange reserves. EDC concludes, as a result, that Iran can afford in the medium term to disregard the UN’s demands. Seen from another angle, the Sudanese and Iranian regimes rely almost exclusively on Islamic financial

Foreign Affairs   pressure on Iran to stop its destabilizing influence and end its support for militant groups in the region such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The defence minister's expressed concern over support for the Taliban coming from Iran is a testament to Iran's spoiler

Foreign Affairs committee   difficult. The chief constraint is insecurity stemming primarily from the ongoing conflict in the south between the Ethiopian-backed transitional federal government, or the TFG, and a loose coalition of Islamic insurgent groups. Humanitarian agencies report increasing difficulties

Terrorism  Mr. Speaker, the transnational terrorist networks of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah share a common identity and purpose. Each seeks, by its own acknowledgment and assertion, the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews everywhere. Each partakes of a culture

Questions on the Order Paper   terrorism The right to food Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Situation of human rights in Myanmar Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Situation of human rights in Belarus Convention on the Rights of Persons