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...Soon after his election in 2014, Mr Modi reached out to Pakistan, inviting then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to his inauguration....
...Raja Mohan of the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Proof of their goodwill, he said, would be “if the Pakistanis can get a ceasefire organised”....
...Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N)....
...(PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif....
...“The immaturity of our democracy is nowhere more evident than in the failure to agree on a way forward,” said one politician from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)....
...The 21 predecessors of Raja Pervez Ashraf, the incumbent whose arrest for corruption has been ordered by the Supreme Court, include one who was executed and two who were assassinated....
...Nawaz Sharif, the main opposition leader, labelled the protests a tamasha or circus....
...We have to condemn it,” Raja Pervez Ashraf, prime minister, told the Pakistani Senate. “Malala is like my daughter and yours, too. If that mindset prevails, then whose daughter would be safe?”...
...A tainted politician has been picked to become the new prime minister,” said Ahsan Iqbal, a leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif....
...The incumbent, Raja Pervez Ashraf, took over after the court last month sacked his predecessor, Yusuf Raza Gilani, for contempt of court for refusing to ask Switzerland to reopen its probe....
...“There’s no room for a military takeover, none whatsoever,” says Shahbaz Sharif of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)....
...Additional reporting by Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar By agreement with The Washington Post...
...“The more unpopular Musharraf becomes, the more unpopular America becomes,” said Raja Zafar ul Haq, a leader of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)....
...be acceptable,” Raja Zafar ul-Haq told AFP....
...What he is saying is that, if he is not elected, he will consider other steps to remain in power at all costs,” said Raja Zafar ul Haq, a senior leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)....
...Raja Mohammad Riaz, a lawyer who had been closely involved in the struggle to reverse Gen Musharraf’s suspension of Mr Chaudhry, was on Monday shot dead as he sat in a taxi near the provincial high court...
...Without this, it’s hard to imagine there will ever be stability in Pakistan,” said Farzana Raja, a PPP leader. “Our two parties are now set to make a new beginning.”...
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