Hints and tips:
...During their meal, Zardari commented: “Ahmad knows everything I think and everything I say . . . I walk into my office every morning and say, ‘Hello Ahmad’!”...
...According to by Ehtisham Ahmad and Michael Best of the London School of Economics, only 0.9 per cent of Pakistanis pay tax, compared with 4.7 per cent in India and 80 per cent in Canada....
...Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab and an opponent of the central administration of President Asif Ali Zardari, accuses the government of “looting and plunder” and tells of $700m spent in vain on two...
...The three-year-old government of Asif Ali Zardari, the president, is mired in a showdown with the judiciary and military that has shunted a tough economic outlook and militant violence off the national agenda...
...That balance has been tested in recent months following allegations that Asif Ali Zardari, the president, authorised the despatch of the memo seeking US help to decisively assert civilian control over the...
...Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, has moved to allay fears over his health by telling a prominent news anchor that he will soon return from Dubai, where he was admitted to hospital for treatment this...
...Last month President Asif Ali Zadari became the country’s first head of state to visit New Delhi in seven years....
...When Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, was in Beijing last month, he sprang a surprise on his Chinese hosts....
...In early June, a 17-year-old student, Tufail Ahmad Mattoo, was killed when a tear gas canister fired from close range by Indian security forces attempting crowd control hit him as he returned home from tutoring...
...Samina Ahmad of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said Mr Gilani must use his US visit to let his hosts know that his power remains limited....
...Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the former railways minister in the outgoing PML (Q) government, who is standing for re-election in Rawalpindi, disagrees....
...One of Mr Musharraf’s closest advisers, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the former railways minister, lost both his seats in Rawalpindi, a city in Punjab, and was on Tuesday reported to have left Pakistan, on a flight...
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