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...The attack came hours after the foreign minister discussed counter-terrorism measures with Anwar ul-Haq, Pakistan’s interim prime minister, on the sidelines of Davos....
...Pakistan has appointed Anwar ul-Haq Kakar, a little-known politician from its volatile western Balochistan province, to serve as caretaker prime minister until elections are held in the coming months....
...Anwar ul-Haq Kakar, Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, told journalists on Wednesday that there was no “systematic pattern” of targeting parties....
...It is now being run by caretaker prime minister Anwar ul-Haq Kakar, a little-known figure from the volatile western Balochistan province, until the elections take place....
...With parliamentary elections due in February, caretaker prime minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar’s government has little time to follow up on Islamabad’s commitments....
...The ensuing protests, in which angered residents across the country have publicly burnt their bills, have added to mounting pressure on the caretaker government of Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar to take...
...The phenomenon dates back to General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s, who established pro-sugar policies with the aim of cultivating sympathetic politicians by offering subsidies, rebates and duty drawbacks...
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...Security was high as Pakistan’s president Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was in attendance. Tensions were high, and the atmosphere was electric....
...Sights of hundreds of buses and trucks for paramilitary forces,” Shuja-ul-haq, a Kashmir journalist for India Today, the weekly newsmagazine, said in a tweet at the weekend....
...Nadeem ul Haq, a former senior IMF economist and former deputy chairman of Pakistan’s planning commission, said: “This loan has come at a good time but it’s inadequate....
...Nawaz Sharif originally came to power as a protégé of military ruler Zia ul-Haq, but clashed with the army during each of his three tenures as premier....
...Karachi residents want to believe that the worst of the sectarian violence is past, and that the country’s 10 years of narrow Islamic governance between 1978 and 1988 under army general Zia-ul-Haq cannot...
...The candidates: Siraj ul-Haq JAMAAT-I-ISLAMI The 55-year-old Islamist leader of Jamaat-i-Islami remains the main political voice of Pakistan’s Sunni Muslim clergy, the country’s majority faith....
...In 1981, she co-founded the Women’s Action Forum to mobilise against the notorious 1979 Hudood Ordinance, by which the then military ruler General Zia ul-Haq replaced many British colonial-era laws with...
...He first came to power in 1990 as the head of the political faction loyal to the former military ruler Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq....
...Under the infamous Hudood ordinance, promulgated by former military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, women can be flogged and stoned....
...Led by the eternally youthful Misbah ul-Haq, with a faint hint of silver in his trendy hipster-styled beard and a taste for push-ups, Pakistan exploded, then imploded, then shoved England aside....
...Saudi Arabia’s influence began to grow in Pakistan in the 1970s when Riyadh’s ultra-conservative ruling establishment teamed up with Pakistan’s military ruler, General Zia ul-Haq, and the US to aid the mujahideen...
...The Saudi-Pakistan defence relationship developed in the 1970s, when Pakistan’s military dictator General Zia ul-Haq sent thousands of troops for security duties in the kingdom after Iran’s 1979 Islamic...
...comparisons to past periods of political turmoil in Pakistan that had been met with army interventions, notably the 1977 opposition protests that led to the 11-year military dictatorship of the late Zia ul-Haq...
...“In 1977, we had increasingly violent protests that led to General Zia ul-Haq’s takeover,” one recently retired general told the FT, referring to an intervention that lasted until Zia’s death in a mysterious...
...Zia ul-Haq, the military ruler who ran the country until his death in 1988, is still mentioned with venom by liberals in Lahore for imposing fundamentalist laws and co-opting extremists for his own political...
...analysts have started to ask whether this is the beginning of the end for a party founded in 1967 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was later ousted from the premiership and executed on the orders of General Zia ul-Haq...
...Flanked by photographs of the PPP’s martyrs – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed in 1979 on the orders of the military dictator Zia ul-Haq, and Bhutto’s daughter Benazir, assassinated five years ago –...
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