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...The government of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has openly accused Pakistan of supporting the Taliban to secure its strategic interests in the region....
...Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan appears vindicated by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan....
...Afghanistan’s presidential palace in Kabul came under rocket attack on Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani attended prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha....
...Last week, Imran Khan’s security adviser told the Financial Times that Joe Biden had not bothered to phone Pakistan’s prime minister....
...They say the best scenario for President Ashraf Ghani is to achieve a stalemate before the summer fighting season ends in October. In the capital, residents are bracing for a siege....
...Massoud was part of a delegation that travelled recently to Pakistan to lobby prime minister Imran Khan....
...Diplomats and analysts said Taliban strategy was to encircle Kabul and pen Afghan forces in the capital in a bid to press President Ashraf Ghani’s government to surrender....
...Prime Minister Imran Khan declared that Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery”....
...Afghan president Ashraf Ghani said in a televised address last week that the goal of the release was to “facilitate direct peace negotiations” between the US, the Taliban and Kabul....
...The Afghan government, led by president Ashraf Ghani, has been anxious that an excessively rapid exit by US forces could further destabilise the country, undermining the goals of the deal....
...Mr Trump last month sought to enlist Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan to press the Taliban to sit down with Kabul to chart a course for Afghanistan’s future....
...Meanwhile, Kabul regularly blames Islamabad for attacks against Afghanistan, but US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told Pakistan the US was counting on its help in his first meeting with Imran Khan, the...
...The opposition leader Imran Khan and foreign minister Khawaja Asif have been particularly vociferous in anti-American sentiment, according to Reuters news agency....
...The speech delighted Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, whose government controls just 60 per cent of the country....
...Shades of Imran Khan’s “cornered tigers” in the 1992 World Cup. Virat Kohli, gracious in defeat, afterwards said, “Pakistan had a good performance, I congratulate them. They deserve to win....
...In another study by Bandiera (with Nava Ashraf and Kelsey Jack), hair stylists in Zambia’s capital Lusaka were recruited to sell condoms and give advice on HIV prevention....
...In Pakistan, opposition politician Imran Khan’s blockade of Islamabad for more than two weeks, and his demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government, have backfired....
...Think of Imran Khan, the cricketing hero who enthused young, middle-class Pakistanis after he entered politics in 1996, or Tahirul Qadri, the Muslim scholar reportedly backed by the army who brought tens...
...list is incomplete, since it omits the unpredictable and bloodthirsty Islamists of the Pakistani Taliban and other extremist groups, as well as opposition civilian politicians such as Nawaz Sharif and Imran...
...Mr Qadri suffered another setback when the Pakistan Justice Movement led by Imran Khan, the former cricket star turned politician, also refused to join his protest....
...Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Mr Zardari’s prime minister, boasts that the imminent completion of its term by the government of the Pakistan People’s party (PPP) is a “great achievement”....
...Last month, the president of the party led by Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketer turned politician, praised Mr Saeed as a “preacher of peace”. India is aghast....
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