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...Imdad Ali, a 38-year-old teacher, holds classes for handfuls of students on a bench outside....
...“We will take Pakistan out of these difficult times,” said Asif Ali Zardari, a senior PPP leader who was expected to take up the ceremonial role of president under the alliance....
...The new government will be led by Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz’s brother, while Zardari’s father Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has been put forward for the mostly...
...Had the BJP done badly in these elections, I think dissension would have begun”, Ali added....
...Khan’s party “should come and talk with us”, said Asif Ali Zardari, who is the father of the PPP leader and is expected to take the ceremonial role of president, which he previously held from 2008 to 2013...
...benjamin.parkin@ft.com...
...“This is the most consequential election Bangladesh is going to have . . . despite the fact that there isn’t an opposition,” said Ali Riaz, a politics professor at Illinois State University....
...Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would make Israel “regret having committed this crime and others”....
...Iran’s direct strike on Israel was a huge gamble by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader....
...Miran Ali, a factory owner and vice-president of BGMEA, called the new minimum salary, which was unveiled following consultations with the industry and unions, “a realistic wage”....
...“Whoever harms us, we will harm them,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday....
...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would retaliate against any attack on its interests, saying his forces were “prepared” for any external threats to the Jewish state....
...A fear in Tehran is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be seeking to goad Iran into a direct confrontation....
...Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and Tee Zhuo...
...He has likened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and said he should be tried as a war criminal....
...to have recognition of a Palestinian state, at least by the US and UN, as well as a serious commitment from Israel to take irreversible steps towards a Palestinian state before any normalisation,” said Ali...
...Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was “attacking” Iran. “Who says we are not attacking Iran? We are attacking,” he told reporters....
...Additional contributions from Irwin Cruz and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel “is committed to bringing about a fundamental change on its border with Lebanon”, according to a statement from his office....
...At the protest outside, Ayah Ali, a former Rockford, Illinois resident and member of the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, accused Biden of being “as complicit as [Israeli prime minister Benjamin...
...The optimistic scenario is Pakistan getting political stability in the next three months,” said Ali Farid Khwaja, head of Karachi-based brokerage KTrade Securities....
...“The reason is they all follow one leader, Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei.”...
...Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strong preference is to dampen down any tension on his northern border....
...Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu now appears to have tacitly agreed to such pauses....
...“Hamas put on a front that it was rational and not interested in war over two years,” said Ali Baraka, a leader of the militant group....
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