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...“There’s undoubtedly a default risk, especially if the State Bank of Pakistan persists with unofficial currency pegging,” said Javed Hassan, founding chair of the Economic Advisory Group....
...“In Somalia sometimes things cook for a while and then explode out of nowhere,” said Abduikadir Hassan Samatar, a Guriel community leader....
...Raisi, a protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, took over this year from the centrist president Hassan Rouhani, the architect of the nuclear deal....
...He publicly praised Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in 2013 calling him “smart, courageous.” Kordahi also left MBC over his support for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad....
...Additional reporting by Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad...
...Wherever it matters, the military is exercising great power and authority,” says Hassan Javid, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Lahore....
...Farhan Bokhari...
...So a visit late last month to Pakistan by Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran, has revived hopes for an ambitious project to build a gas pipeline to deliver gas from the Islamic Republic....
...Additional reporting by Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad and Monavar Khalaj in Tehran...
...Additional reporting by Geoff Dyer in Washington, Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad, Christian Oliver in Brussels and James Shotter in Frankfurt...
...He said five other Pakistani Taliban leaders, including Mufti Hassan, who heads the group in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, joined him in the pledge....
...A black-shawled Shifa Farhan, who has come with her husband, sister and three-year-old son, agrees. “People are having a good time,” she says....
...Farhan Hassan, who came to the UK at the age of 14, sends home a portion of his salary every month, and says he knows the money is a lifeline....
...“The law axes the tight margin of freedom of expression we enjoy instead of promoting it,” says Hassan Almustafa, a Saudi writer and blogger....
...“There are areas of Karachi which are quite dangerous, but Karachi swings: you go to a movie show, a fashion show, everybody’s enjoying life,” said Farooq Hassan, Port Grand vice-president, as workers shovelled...
...Abul Hassan Jaffery, the head of public relations at the Iranian consulate general, was injured in an attack by unknown gunmen when he was heading to his office. He later died in hospital....
...“This year was a slow year, but we expect a slow awakening in 2010,” says Hassan Allam, operations director of Hassan Allam Construction, a company that partnered last month with Palm Hills to build all...
...said Farooq Hassan, head of the Management Association of Pakistan, a private lobby group....
...“We have to perfect the art of getting drunk on orange juice,” chuckles Hassan Abedin, the centre’s development officer. But despite the striking resemblance, the centre is not an Oxford college....
...Ashfaq Hassan Khan, head of the debt management unit at the finance ministry, says: "This offer is mainly because we want Pakistan's name to appear on the radar screens across the global capital markets....
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