FOOC: Featuring Pakistan and Argentina 3 July 08
From Our Own Correspondent
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Despatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents. This week: Barbara Plett reports that the hopeful mood which followed Pakistan's general elections in February has now evaporated.
In Sri Lanka, Matthew Gwyther meets the country's "man of the moment", a former Tamil Tiger who is now a government minister.
Martin Plaut explains how the issue of Zimbabwe dominated the African Union summit.
In Argentina, Daniel Schweimler says the tradition of democracy through popular protest is alive and ... 




