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...After a long stretch in London, Hamid moved to Lahore again just as the popularity of Imran Khan — Pakistan’s recently deposed prime minister — had first begun to soar roughly a decade ago....
...She smiles as she recalls the beginnings of her friendship with the novelist Mohsin Hamid. “Our first books came out near the same time....
...Massoud was part of a delegation that travelled recently to Pakistan to lobby prime minister Imran Khan....
...Prime Minister Imran Khan declared that Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery”....
...Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister, this week congratulated Afghans for “breaking the mental chains of slavery”....
...Security may be the biggest challenge in Pakistan for the new government of Imran Khan, elected as prime minister in July — but it is hardly the only one....
...The election of Imran Khan as Pakistan’s prime minister has renewed hope that the K-Electric sale can be completed, which would help repay creditors....
...Opposition leaders renewed calls for the resignation of Zahid Hamid, law minister, and at least two other ministers....
...The opposition leader Imran Khan and foreign minister Khawaja Asif have been particularly vociferous in anti-American sentiment, according to Reuters news agency....
...Hamid Mir, a senior journalist with more than 2m Twitter followers, revealed, in a tweet later deleted, Baloch’s real name, Fouzia Azeem — and claimed that she was dishonouring the name Baloch....
...The 1987 Cricket World Cup was under way, hosted jointly by India and Pakistan, and with the legendary fast bowler Imran Khan at the peak of his powers, the atmosphere in Peshawar was frenzied....
...The Obama administration is already struggling to secure a deal with the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security agreement that would allow several thousand US troops to remain in Afghanistan...
...That is why Pakistani generals are likely to be more alarmed by Mr Sharif’s friendly telephone chat with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan than his conversation with Manmohan Singh, the prime minister...
...Imran Khan is a very unusual man....
...Local radio picked up his remarks, which were played throughout neighbouring Afghanistan and, according to Newsweek, “exploited” by “radical Islamic foes of the US-friendly regime of Hamid Karzai”....
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