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The Pashtun Long March

Pakistan's Pashtun protest; Year of the Dog; Turkey's Great Village Repatriation project; love at the World Service; in praise of Nigerian literature. With David Amanor.

The killing by Karachi police of a Pashtun man they claimed had terrorist links triggered a nationwide protest by Pakistani Pashtuns. Adil Shahzeb of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Urdu reported on the Pashtun Long March, and explains the grievances within Pashtun communities.

Year of the Dog
Chinese New Year brings a changeover from Rooster to Dog. What does it mean to be born in the Year of the Dog, and what place do dogs have in other cultures? Answers from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Russian's Pavel Aksenov, Issariya Praithongyaem from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Thai, Luiza Khudaykulova of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Uzbek, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo's Lourdes Heredia and Yuwen Wu from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Chinese.

Turkey's Great Village Repatriation project
The Turkish Agriculture Minister recently offered livestock and other incentives to rural migrants who return to their villages. Food prices are rising, and the government wants former farmers to go back to their fields. Özge Özdemir of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Turkish tells us more.

Love at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service
In the week dedicated to love around the world, we hear what it's like to see each other on the Fifth Floor as well as at home. Kathy Harcombe from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa and Salim Kikeke of the Swahili service met and fell in love at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. As did World Service Social Affairs correspondent Valeria Perasso and Alejandro Millan of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo.

In praise of Nigerian literature
Last month a French journalist asked Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie if there were bookshops in Nigeria. Two people who know more about the richness of the country's bookshops - and literature - are the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Bara'atu Ibrahim and Abigail Ony Nwaohuocha.

Image: Pakistani protesters gather over the killing of 23-year-old model Naqeebullah Mehsud
Credit: Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images

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