For Omar Lodhi, the business ties that connect the Gulf and Asia are personal as well.

FORBES: By Angela Shah

Lodhi liked the possibility of Asia: The middle class in South and East Asian economies accounted for 1.4% of the global population and 2.1% of global income in 2000.

FORBES: By Angela Shah

While the opportunity in India and China has been well documented, Lodhi says, Abraaj has targeted the rest of Asia.

FORBES: By Angela Shah

Unfortunately, Ms Lodhi, who was the Pakistani envoy in London at the time, ignores the uncomfortable fact that the excitement about that heady movement has now fizzled out, eaten up by internal squabbles and poor leadership.

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Sonal Lodhi and Caitlin Weeks, head boy and head girl of Cyfarthfa High School, were among the students nervously awaiting the morning's ordeal.

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