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One pro-cannabis campaigner, who had the bright idea of sending a joint to every member of the National Assembly, was recently given a prison sentence (admittedly suspended).
ECONOMIST: France
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The home belongs to Waqar Ahmed Khan, a member of the Awami National Party and a member of the provincial assembly of the North West Frontier Province, where the Swat valley is located.
CNN: 10 killed as Pakistan politician targeted
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Musharraf's party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q), conceded defeat and the main opposition parties -- PPP and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) - together emerged with a majority in the 342-member lower house of the National Assembly (NA).
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Pakistan takes important step
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The presiding officer of the 60-member National Assembly cannot vote in a no-confidence motion, leaving Mr Michael with 28 votes to his opponents' 31.
ECONOMIST: Wales
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Based on the actual successes of the group's entrepreneurial member companies, Croissance Plus argued in the National Assembly that if the same Ffr100 billion was instead put into a privately managed venture-capital fund, it would create 1.8 million skilled private-sector jobs over five years--and return the Ffr100 billion, with a profit, to the taxpayers.
FORBES: Mind the Geese
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Bernard Debre, a member of the centre right UMP and a representative for the city of Paris in the French National Assembly even said DSK had already abused various employees at the Sofitel New York.
FORBES: Dominique Strauss-Kahn Has Alibi, French Media Report
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NWFP's assembly and a member of the Awami National Party, would leave only four powers with the federal government: foreign affairs, defence, international communications and the currency.
ECONOMIST: Is Pakistan living at the edge of disaster?
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This could be the creation of a 300-member National Assembly, which would be empowered to draft a constitution, create a new judiciary and confirm a cabinet that would be sponsored and advised by the Americans until full power can be handed over to a democratically elected Iraqi government.
ECONOMIST: Back to work | The
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On Saturday a Kurdish member of parliament was assassinated as he returned to Baghdad for a session of the National Assembly to finalize the Iraqi constitution.
NPR: Iraq Seeks Sunni Support for Constitution