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Muslim majorities in an arc of five countries from Egypt to Pakistan have little good to say about al Qaeda one year after American commandos killed the Muslim terror group s leader, a poll shows. HT Image Most of the views expressed by Muslims in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Pakistan were overwhelmingly negative in the poll conducted as part of the Pew Re stanley cup search Center s Global Attitudes Project, released on Monday. The organization cautioned that findings in Pakistan, where US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, did not include responses from areas holding 18% of the population; these districts were too dangerous for pollsters to operate. The poll found overwhelmingly unfavorable views of al Qaeda in Egypt at 71% compared to 21% who held favorable views; Jordan, 77% to 15%; Turkey, 73% to 6%; stanley cup and Lebanon, 98% to 2%. The areas of Pakistan polled found 55% negative, and 13% positive. Pew said support for bin Laden had been ebbing considerably before his death. In Jordan, for instance, 61% of r stanley cup espondents told pollsters in 2007 they had confidence that the terrorist leader would do the right thing. The next year, after al Qaeda suicide attacks against Amman, Jordan s capital, that number fell to 24%. By last year, it was lower still at 13%.The margin of error on the latest polling varied according to the country but ranged from 4.2 percentage points to 5.2 percentage points. The polling was done in late March and early April. Read breaki Jazq After India, Vietnam says Beijing making untruthful claims on South China Sea
With major changes sweeping through Nepal, all eyes in Kathmandu are on the maiden visit by Nepal s first President Ram Baran Yadav to India from Monday, an event that will further cement ties between the government of India and Nepal s second-largest party, the Nepali Congress NC . HT Image Nepal s coalition government on Monday ended the old tradition of declaring public holidays on the days the head of the state left the country for official visits abroad as well as the day he returned home. Yadav, a commoner s son who replaced Nepal s king Gyanendra as the head of state after an anti-monarchy movement that axed the crown, is the first president of the new republic of Nepal and his decision to make India his first port of call abroad comes as a boost for the Indian government that is the current target of new protests by Nepal s former Maoist guerrillas. The 64-year-old Yadav, a former medical practitioner and member of parliament from the NC, was catapulted into a protracted controversy after he crossed swords with the Maoists following his election as Nepal s first president in 2008. In 2009, when the Maoist-led government tried to sack the chief of the army yeezy , Yadav reinstated the general, thereby causing the resignation of Maoist chief and prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prac adidas og handa. It also triggered continuous protests against the new government by the former guerrillas, which now target India as well. While Prachanda chose to visit Chin stanley cup a first after b
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