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...Khawaja Asif, Pakistan’s defence minister, on Saturday warned that the IMF programme would not be enough, saying the country was already “bankrupt”....
...But Nafisa Shah, a parliamentarian from the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, says Khan’s “poor handling of the economy and flip-flopping on the IMF have made him very unpopular”....
...Amit Shah, the president of Mr Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, tweeted that the strike was an example of the prime minister’s “strong & decisive” leadership....
...Nafeesa Shah, a member of the lower house of parliament from Mr Zardari’s PPP, told the FT: “As long as the government continues to be stubborn, the opposition parties will be forced to agitate.”...
...Salman Shah, an economist and former finance minister, told the FT: “The plans for a tax amnesty simply overlook where the problem lies....
...Bukhari, head of the Karachi-based Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari business group, with investments in banking, IT and the stock market....
...The Pashtuns are facing a crisis of leadership, said Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan who lives in Peshawar. “The Pashtun ship is a rudderless ship,” he said....
...Asif Ali Zardari, the president, ordered a reivew of Ms Bibi’s case late last year which concluded that the verdict was unsound....
...Prominent among those replaced were Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the foreign minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, the minister for water and power, and Nazar Mohammad Gondal, the minister of agriculture....
...A US official confirmed she cancelled a weekend meeting with Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, in protest at Mr Davis’s detention....
...“We are now approaching a situation that is similar to what happened to Iran under the shah. We are not quite there yet. But if these trend lines continue, that’s where we are heading.”...
...The summons was issued a day before Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, was due to arrive in the UK for an official visit overshadowed by Pakistani anger over Mr Cameron’s accusation that the country...
...Asif Ali Zardari, the president, once used the analogy of heavy earrings to describe the burden Pakistan carried with its support for militants....
...Six weeks later, when Benazir fell from power, partly as a result of public outrage at the killings, her husband Asif Ali Zardari was charged with Murtaza’s murder....
...Mahindra is bullish on India but cautions about top-down reforms pushed too far ahead of the people, as happened under the Shah of Iran. “Indians have a very short tolerance of dictatorship,” he says....
...Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistani prime minister, who attended the conference and also chaired the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Ministerial Meeting, vowed to step up the fight against terrorists....
...Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, has warned that the threat to the country from Taliban militants now extends far beyond the areas along the Afghan border which have long been the focus of Pakistani...
...Mr Malik, interior minister and a close ally of President Asif Ali Zardari, said his government had closed 20 offices, 87 schools and several religious seminaries, or madrassas, run by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa...
...Bush, US president, who made New Year’s eve phone calls to Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, and Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister....
...Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, who accompanied president Asif Ali Zardari to China said: “They [China] have agreed to help Pakistan more than the resource gap”....
...Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, and present president of Pakistan declared his friendship toward India in unequivocal terms....
...Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister, on Thursday implored India to avoid taking a “knee-jerk reaction” by blaming the country’s regional adversary for the Mumbai attack....
...The effort to refocus the intelligence agency came a day after Asif Ali Zardari made one of the strongest overtures of any Pakistani president to India....
...Earlier, AFP news agency quoted Kamal Shah, the interior secretary, saying “the prime minister and his staff were not in the car” when it was fired upon....
...“We have a resolve and we have national consensus in Pakistan to defend our territorial integrity,” Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the foreign minister, told parliament....
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