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The World Next Week: Pakistan Celebrates Republic Day, BRICS Meet in South Africa, and the Arab League Convenes in Qatar

<p>A boy walks past a Pakistani flag in Rawalpindi (Faisal Mahmood/Courtesy Reuters).</p>
A boy walks past a Pakistani flag in Rawalpindi (Faisal Mahmood/Courtesy Reuters).

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Pakistan’s Republic Day, the BRICS summit in Durban, South Africa, and the Arab League summit in Doha.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2013/20130321_T…]

The highlights:

For more on the topics we discussed in the podcast check out:

Pakistani elections: Reuters reports on Pakistan’s May 11 elections and current conditions in the country. The New York Times discusses the historic significance of the transfer of power. The Guardian covers frontrunner candidate Nawaz Sharif and his party’s creation of a public transit system in Lahore. Foreign Affairs analyzes the influence of the Pakistani army and the potential for a coup.

BRICS summit in South Africa: South Africa has an official website for the summit with press releases and speech transcripts. CFR has an interview with Martin Wolf on the BRICS’ international relevance. The Financial Times reports on current plans for a BRICS development bank. The New York Times covers the 2012 summit’s failure to found the bank.

Arab League summit in Doha: Al-Jazeera reports on the Arab League’s offer of membership to the Syrian opposition. AFP reports on Israeli president Shimon Peres’s call for the Arab League to directly intervene in Syria. CFR has a Backgrounder on the Arab League and a discussion of last year’s summit in Baghdad.