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...Zulfikar’s daughter Benazir — who was twice prime minister and the first woman prime minister in modern times of a majority Muslim state — or the egregious corruption of which she and later her husband Asif...
...“India’s decision is clearly to divert attention away from the bashing they have recently received by China,” said Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s former high commissioner to India....
...Last month, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari invited Singh to visit Gah, in the latest round of so-called “soft diplomacy” between the nuclear-armed countries....
...“We’ve got nothing,” said one thirsty visitor, Abdul Sattar, 47....
...He meets the minister, Abdul Karim Luaibi, every two weeks or so. BP discovered Rumaila in 1953, but it was squeezed out when Iraq nationalised its oil industry....
...The US is also offering $2m for information on Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s deputy leader....
...“Our circumstances have deteriorated,” admits Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the finance minister. “We have the capacity to be a tiger – we can do better.”...
...Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, a respected former World Bank economist, was retained as the finance minister, as Pakistan negotiates with the International Monetary Fund to resume disbursements under a stalled loan...
...“Obviously, we are saddened by Prime Minister Cameron’s remarks in Bangalore to an Indian audience,” said Abdul Basit, a spokesman for Pakistan’s foreign ministry....
...He told a press conference he would be flying to New York on Saturday to meet Faisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the centre. “He has agreed to move the location,” Mr Jones said....
...Ashley Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said recent arrests of Afghan Taliban leaders, including Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, were motivated by the desire to seize...
...The civilian government led by him and President Asif Ali Zardari has defied the odds by staying in power and taking on militant Taliban groups that have struck the country’s main cities and even the army...
...Asif Ali Zardari, the president and Bhutto’s widower, has not helped its cause. He invited strong criticism at home for embarking on an international tour as the heavens opened....
...Retired Lieutenant General Abdul Qayyum, a former military commander, said on Thursday night: “It is absolutely vital for the Pakistani state to assert its writ....
...President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday approved introduction of Islamic law in the Swat area. Pakistani government officials claim the new law was necessary to restore peace to the area....
...Worse, last week Pakistani courts released from detention Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme suspected of spreading nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea....
...The move by Asif Ali Zardari defuses a two-year dispute that contributed to the downfall last year of his predecessor....
...“Even president Asif Zardari [Pakistan’s head of state] was detained for eight years. Has he made an issue out of it? I want to move on.”...
...Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, has taken a big political gamble. At the weekend, he offered some of the strongest words of conciliation towards India of any Pakistani leader....
...Together in defence However successful Asif Ali Zardari’s Beijing visit proves, China and Pakistan are sure to continue close co-operation on defence....
...Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the foreign minister, who has just returned from China, where he spent the previous four days accompanying president Asif Ali Zardari on a diplomatic visit, said China had agreed to...
...Only three days before his arrival, the Pakistani courts threw down a gauntlet to the west when, in an unexpected move, they ordered the release from house arrest of Abdul Qader Khan, the architect of Pakistan...
...The president’s decision led to the death of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, a chief cleric who vowed his sympathisers would carry on his fight....
...“The Musharraf government is doing its best to stop our people from going to the airport,” said Khawaja Asif, a PML (N) leader. “This is just overkill.”...
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