Global Post: It wasn’t all bad, and it certainly wasn’t all good, but 2012 was a big year for news makers and game changers.
From the man who won one of the tightest US presidential races in decades, to the head of state whose tenure has been marked by bloody protests, we’ve rounded up the nine leaders who influenced the world the most this year — for better or for worse
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1. Christine Lagarde
The first woman to head the International Monetary Fund, Lagarde had no time to settle in before jumping into the ongoing battle that is the euro zone’s debt crisis. Ranked among Forbes’ most powerful people and most powerful women, the director of the 188-country-strong financial organization managed to garner an extra $430 billion in funding from G20 countries this past April, doubling the IMF’s lending capacities.
In the midst of trying to put out global fiscal fires, the former lawyer and influential French politician — who was named a Chevalier in the Légion d’honneur in 2000 — also manages to raise two sons.
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What got Imran Khan going against the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman’s decree (fatwa) against him, saying that vote to Imran is ‘haram’.
The proper response would have been a principled one, to expose Fazlur Rehman and Fatwa machinery and Imran Khan has done an exact opposite to punish the victim. He has strengthened the position of Fazlur Rehman and shot himself in the foot. He has not stood for justice and secularism. I believe moderate Muslims stand for secularism and only Mullahs stand for Fatwas and Sharia Law.
He may be a good man but he is a weak man. Under presurre from Fazlur Rahman , he dispalyed his weakness. I am sorry but I have lost all respect fro hi. Any man who cannot take a principled stand is a looser!!!
Imran Khan’s great feat at the World Cup of Cricket & his wonderful Cancer Hospital are all applaudable, but the true test of a man is at the time when his principles are challenged. On that note, he failed miserably & lost the respect of a lot of people who looked up to him. I am(sadly) one of those!
I did not realise that lmran Khan was such a spineless hypocrite. To seek to malign Ahmadiyyat in the way he has done in the hope of achieving his political ambition is unprincipled. Allah is in control and He alone will determine the future of Ahmadiyyat in Pakistan , not lmran Khan.