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  • It referred to the campaign embarked on by Amin, one of Africa's most notorious dictators, to expel long-term South Asian residents who had come to Uganda during British colonial rule and formed the mainstay of the economy.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • This is physically the largest country in what is commonly referred to as the South Asian subcontinent.

    Durangoherald.com 2010

  • The driver is described as a South Asian man with a green turban.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2010

  • Orr suggests that white people warm up to the black nerd — Obama as Urkel — but not to the "South Asian" one, because there are just so darn many South Asian nerds.

    Why racial attitudes that helped Barack Obama will hurt Bobby Jindal. Ann Althouse 2009

  • The Korean American Christian community is one widely noted case, as are Muslims from Middle Eastern and South Asian nations and Sikhs with an Indian heritage.6

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • If anyone picks up Kim Barker's The Taliban Shuffle with the hopes of understanding the myriad security challenges spanning and indeed linking Afghanistan, Pakistan and the wider South Asian region, she should move on.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • If anyone picks up Kim Barker's The Taliban Shuffle with the hopes of understanding the myriad security challenges spanning and indeed linking Afghanistan, Pakistan and the wider South Asian region, she should move on.

    C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011

  • At the time of the Persian Gulf crisis of 1990–91, Richard Haass was serving on the staff of the National Security Council as senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs, in effect the NSC point man for the region.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Central and South Asian leaders sat down Wednesday for security talks with their Russian and Chinese counterparts at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kazakhstan.

    Shanghai Cooperation Summit Opens in Kazakhstan 2011

  • Doing so would require India to increase its contribution to the fund, which the South Asian country has the capacity to do, he said.

    IMF Candidate Says 'Very Positive' Meeting With Indian PM Margherita Stancati 2011

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