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...Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen said the visa policy was Washington’s “prerogative” but in an interview with the Financial Times in Dhaka last month, he dismissed criticism of the election build-up as “false...
...AK Abdul Momen, Bangladesh’s foreign minister, dismissed accusations that Wazed was nominated because of her relation to the prime minister....
...“Foreign policy [and] security issues inevitably bring the army to the table,” said Abdul Basit, a former Pakistani high commissioner to India....
...It won’t be socialist or democratic,” said Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s foreign ministry. No country has yet recognised Afghanistan’s new government....
...Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme who later assisted with the proliferation of the destructive technology around the world, has died aged 85....
...Analysts and diplomats point to unresolved factionalism between the old guard of Kandahari leaders, such as deputy prime minister and Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, and the Haqqani group, whose...
...Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Islamist group’s top political leader, returned to Afghanistan on Tuesday after two decades, flying into the southern city of Kandahar from Qatar, where he has lived since the US...
...The militant group also took Sheberghan, the stronghold of Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek warlord who played a key part in the Northern Alliance coalition that helped the US defeat the Taliban in 2001...
...Others such as Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammad Noor are reportedly in exile. Any Afghan resistance would also struggle to attract international support....
...“It’s hard to imagine the Ghani government remaining in power [for long],” said Abdul Basit, a retired Pakistani diplomat....
...The US-led invasion in 2001 scattered the Taliban, with founders such as Hassan Akhund and Abdul Ghani Baradar — now prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively — fleeing overseas....
...It’s a fictional send-up of Benzion Netanyahu, father of the recently deposed Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu....
...The blueprint he unveiled yesterday, with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, purports to offer Palestinians eventual and conditional sovereignty in disjointed enclaves on roughly two-thirds of the...
...“We hope he will be sent [to The Hague],” said Michel Arditti, permanent secretary to Abdul Wahid al-Nour, leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a rebel group in Sudan that fought against Mr Bashir’s...
...Abdul Basit, Pakistan’s former ambassador to India, said Mr Saeed’s arrest marked a significant step by Pakistan in its campaign against militancy....
...Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, told Israeli reporters in Greece that Israel completely supported US actions....
...“Netanyahu is obsessed with translating the Trump agenda into sovereignty,” said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, who runs the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs....
...“We’ve decided to intensify even more the attacks on Hamas and the terrorist organisations in Gaza,” Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said after meeting the defence minister and army chief of...
...In a televised statement to the nation on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Israelis to be patient, “because this operation may take time”....
...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pressed by hardline members of his governing coalition, including members of his own party, to respond forcefully to the continuing rocket attacks from...
...nearly 500 prisoners that will be released in exchange for a captured soldier, in the first stage of the implementation of a landmark prisoner swap deal that has boosted the standing of prime minister Benjamin...
...Blair has a closer relationship with the Israeli leader Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu than perhaps anyone in the west....
...But he and others say it would have to be a “100 per cent” freeze, and there is huge Arab mistrust for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister....
...The 1870s were a time when conservative leaders such as Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister, were powerful and popular....
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