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...“Alibaba wants to help promote products of Bangladeshi SMEs and submitted its proposal to us,” said Sayed Ali, a deputy secretary at the Commerce Ministry....
...Celebrated Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib wrote of its celestial qualities, musing over whether mangoes were sent by “the gardeners of heaven’s orchards”....
...Bahrain’s oil minister, Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza, predicted that rising demand could absorb higher exports from their regional rival Iran next year, after sanctions linked to Tehran’s nuclear programme...
...Mirza Waheed’s latest novel ‘The Book of Gold Leaves’ is published by Penguin Photograph: Geraint Lewis/Writer Pictures...
...Shazia Mirza is working with the BBC on a documentary about stand-up comedy in Pakistan...
...Then, when he grew up, he became Ali Baba....
...Twenty-two people were found dead on Thursday following 17 deaths on Wednesday in the vast port city in southern Pakistan, Saud Mirza, Karachi’s police chief, told the Associated Press news agency....
...Yemen Protests continued for the 12th consecutive day as thousands took to the streets, calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh....
...“We want to show our support for the government, for peace and that we love our country and that it is united,” said Ali, a young Sunni Bahraini....
...There But For The , by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99 A dinner-party guest locks himself in the host’s spare room and refuses to leave....
...These include Abduljalil al-Singace and Husain Mshaima, two leaders of Haq, and Saeed Mirza Ahmed Al Nouri, an Al Wafa leader and cleric....
...“We will make certain that no one takes charge of law and order in their own hands,” said Zulfiqar Mirza, provincial home minister of Sindh....
...Western diplomats said Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the PPP, had recently been rumoured to be considering himself as the candidate....
...Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister, and co-chairman of her Pakistan People’s party (PPP), is emerging as the frontrunner to become the country’s next president...
...Ifzal Ali, the ADB’s chief economist, said: “We believe the Indonesian harvest ina few weeks is going to be very good. If the monsoons are then normal, we will see some price softening by September....
...The group instead holds up Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, its 19th-century founder, as the last prophet....
...Mohammad Mirza Kundazi, a goods importer with a sideline in money changing, haggled his own ransom down to $100,000 from $2m seven days after being bundled into a car outside his house last month but his...
...Welcome to “Birminghamabad”, as the locally raised comedian and writer Shazia Mirza calls it....
...“The team’s victory made me change my decision to leave Iraq to escape the security situation in Baghdad,” said 34-year-old Ali Mirza....
...Born in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf, Mr Larijani is son of Ayatollah Mirza-Hashem Amoli and son-in-law of Ayatollah Morteza Motahari, killed by a 1979 bombing in the revolution’s early days....
...Others make a stand in different ways; the British comedian Shazia Mirza, and her American counterparts Tissa Hami and the comedy writer Negin Farsad, all work, as it were, on both sides of the street -...
...The move by Saed Mirza, the prosecutor, was recommended by Detlev Mehlis, the head of the UN team investigating the Hariri assassination in February....
...“Without changing to the pistachio, people would already have migrated and the area returned to desert,” says Mirza Ali Hashemi-Bahramani, mayor of Bahraman....
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