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...An Indian official warned that Afghanistan risked becoming a haven for Pakistani extremist groups, including Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the devastating 2008 Mumbai terror attacks...
...Former chief executive Ayman Asfari handed over the top role in January but has kept his seat on the board....
...Last June, prime minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt had completed projects worth E£4.5tn ($287bn) over six years....
...The company faces stiff competition from e-retailers such as Farfetch, Yoox Net-a-Porter, MatchesFashion and MyTheresa (a great story from team DD on that last one here)....
...Ayman Asfari, chief executive of Petrofac, said in the company’s pre-close trading update in December that bidding activity had increased in the final quarter of last year....
...Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s successor as al-Qaeda’s leader, has disowned Isis as extremists....
...Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only survivor among the 10 Mumbai attackers, who said he belonged to the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant group, was hanged two years ago....
...But the announcement by Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, also suggests rivalry between various Islamist factions in Asia and the Middle East, including the global al-Qaeda group...
...Trading on a prospective p/e of 13 times, compared with a sector average of 8 times, analysts appear convinced that Petrofac’s earnings growth target is within reach....
...through the programme, with past UK and Ireland winners including Stephen Catlin (Catlin Group); Moya Doherty and John McColgan (Riverdance); Tim Richards (Vue Entertainment); Michael Spencer (Icap); and Ayman...
...Ayman Asfari, chief executive, said Petrofac remained on course to deliver net profit growth in 2012 of at least 15 per cent....
...Only Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s new leader, commands a higher bounty. The reward simply boosted Mr Saeed’s swagger....
...Only Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as head of al-Qaeda, commands a bigger US bounty, at $25m....
...“The global jihadist movement lost its most iconic and inspirational leader,” he said, while most al-Qaeda members found the new leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, to be less compelling and “will not offer him the...
...Yet the currency still hit an eight-year low of E£6.06 to the dollar in late January, compared with E£5.8 at the start of 2011....
...Mr Weinstein was the Pakistan country director of J.E. Austin Associates, a US-based company that advises Pakistani businesses and government agencies....
...The awards programme was founded by E&Y to help entrepreneurs achieve their potential....
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...The issue has implications beyond the protection of copyright on computer upgrades, video games or e-government initiatives....
...However, Ayman Asfari, the Syria-born chief executive, warned there could be “bumps” in the region in the year ahead....
...Another document is a list of e-mail addresses hacked and monitored by the agency. There is also a list of informants and their code numbers....
...At the time, some CIA officials saw Mr Balawi as a source who could help the agency locate Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s number two....
...Bush into the mire of Mesopotamia, creating laboratory conditions for the urban warfare urged on jihadis by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s strategist....
...As a result, Credit Suisse estimates that the average price per unit has declined from E£1.62m ($280,000) in 2009 to E£1.31m this year....
...Ayman al-Zawahiri, the terrorist group’s deputy leader, hit out at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on the tape, sections of which were aired by the broadcaster al-Jazeera....
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