Overcoming mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains a central issue, says BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.

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Correspondent Mike Wooldridge with some childrenEverywhere we went we became the centre of attention for the local kids.

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Lincoln was born Anna Marie Wooldridge in Chicago on Aug. 6, 1930.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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