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...“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....
...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...
...Syed Murtaza Ali Shah, the district’s most senior local official, says the authorities want to reinforce a number of roads and embankments to prevent them breaking, but they don’t yet have the funds to do...
...Chahat’s father, Mahmood Ali, who is also a lead singer and the chief harmonium player of the Chahat Mahmood Ali Qawwal group, worked with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Faiz Ali Faiz, two of Pakistan’s leading...
...Why the absence of stories by, say, Syed Mujtaba Ali, the greatest Bengali wit and raconteur?...
...Ali Bacher, who captained South Africa to its 1970 triumph, said he regarded Procter as one of the country’s all-time three best players, alongside Richards and Graeme Pollock....
...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...
...Job moves Lazard has hired Ali Syed from Citigroup to work on sovereign wealth and pension funds in the Middle East, Asia and North America, according to people familiar with the matter....
...Among those on show is Imran Qureshi, globally renowned for his large-scale installations....
...Ali Sarwar Naqvi, a former Pakistani diplomat, said that Khan would struggle to mend relations with the US....
...Sharif’s government, with the backing of the country’s powerful military, is locked in a stand-off with former prime minister Imran Khan....
...“We want Imran Khan to return. At least life was not this expensive.”...
...The Pakistani rupee lost more than 7 per cent of its value against the US dollar last week, the steepest weekly drop since 1998, after a regional poll victory for Imran Khan, who was ousted as prime minister...
...Pakistan’s powerful new army chief General Syed Asim Munir is visiting Saudi Arabia, a historic lender to Islamabad in times of crisis....
...Sharif was elected Pakistan’s new prime minister on Monday, marking the return to power and influence of the nation’s two main political dynasties after the dramatic weekend ousting of former cricketer Imran...
...Pakistan has replaced its central bank chief within weeks of the government coming to power, declining to extend the tenure of Imran Khan-appointed IMF official Reza Baqir....
...“This natural disaster, this calamity, should elicit an international response — which it has not elicited so far,” said Shahnaz Wazir Ali, a former MP and minister of social welfare....
...“Imran Khan has destroyed political culture, weakened parliament and institutions,” she adds....
...Harking back to her MFA days at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shamsie speaks fondly about one of the “great mentors” of her life, the Indian-born poet Agha Shahid Ali....
...Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan appears vindicated by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan....
...“We have never seen a similar protest in the past in Gwadar,” said Ali Shah, a prominent TV journalist in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan....
...This, I read, was the mausoleum of a long-forgotten Ottoman admiral, named Kilic Ali Pasha....
...But the acrimony between the two longtime allies has eased after Imran Khan, the prime minister, met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in May....
...Imran Ali, director of the major crime unit at the Washington County prosecutor’s office, said the state would “prove that Officer Potter abrogated her responsibility to protect the public . . ....
...“Imran Khan would not be so keen on a [fiscal] tightening again, especially when you factor in that there is political pressure,” said Ali Farid Khwaja, an analyst at brokerage Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Securities...
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