Overcoming mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains a central issue, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.
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The two sports journalists honoured are Hugh McIlvanney, currently chief sports correspondent for the Sunday Times, and Daily Mail columnist Ian Wooldridge.
Dr Wooldridge said the environmental research, organised by the Low Carbon Research Institute, would work with the company but provide an independent assessment of any impact.
Government forces have made recent gains against the Taliban, but it is a battle for hearts and minds, too, the BBC's world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge says.
But the Gilanis are still a powerful political family, with the two sons standing in elections to the provincial and national assemblies, the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad reports.
However, the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad says when there were similar reports of a drone strike last weekend the Pakistani authorities eventually said the initial accounts were mistaken.
Lifting the sanctions on all but 10 individuals and two firms is clearly intended to encourage further political progress as well as demonstrate continuing concern, the BBC's world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports.
The triangular relationship between Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US will be tested more than ever as Nato withdraws combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of next year, says the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad.
Both the enormous material contribution that globalisation has brought to the world and the reservations that many people feel about it are well described by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, two senior journalists at The Economist.
The prospect of Mr Sharif forming a new government represents a remarkable political comeback for a man deposed by Gen Pervez Musharraf in a coup in 1999 and subsequently put on trial and given a jail sentence, says the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad.
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