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Guest Lecturer: Dr. Najam Abbas, Senior Fellow, South and Central Asia, East-West Institute, Belgium
Date and venue: December 31, 2014, IPRI Conference Hall
Following were the salient features highlighted by the speaker:
Various factors including friction-free, reassuring and rewarding relationship, influenced relations between…
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