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...Ahsan Iqbal, planning minister and a senior member of Sharif’s ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, said: “Thank God [Khan] is safe.”...
...The IMF programme “will restore the confidence of the international markets and investors in Pakistan”, said Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s planning minister....
...Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, was chosen as prime minister by parliament after Khan was ejected from office in a no-confidence vote brought by an assortment of disparate parties including...
...“Imran Khan’s government has turned Pakistan into a colony of the IMF,” Ahsan Iqbal, general secretary of the PML-N told the FT....
...“Maryam Nawaz is young and speaks well....
...Islamabad has been in a state of political turmoil since the summer when Nawaz Sharif was forced to step down as prime minister over corruption charges....
...“China will expand the [economic] pie,” says Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s planning minister. “This project will create new [domestic] demand.”...
...“I have now fully recovered and I am back to serve my country” he told a small group of reporters at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport, before he flew by helicopter to his palatial private residence...
...Maajid Nawaz, a former Liberal Democrat candidate and co-founder of an anti-extremist think-tank, was incorrectly labelled by World-Check as having terrorist links....
...Pakistani media have speculated that members of Pakistan’s tiny Christian minority, celebrating the Easter holiday at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, may have been the target....
...“What we are seeing is a good model of civil-military leadership working together,” says Ahsan Iqbal, the planning minister in Islamabad....
...After a meeting with Pakistani officials in Dubai this month — terrorism-prone Pakistan itself is considered too dangerous a venue — the IMF praised the Nawaz Sharif government’s “commitment and progress...
...A spate of attacks in Pakistan has underlined the challenge that militancy poses to the government of Nawaz Sharif, prime minister, who won a landslide victory in May 11 general elections....
...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....
...Ahsan Iqbal, a former deputy chairman of the planning commission and leader in the PML-Nawaz, describes Mr Khan as “a one-man shop” without an agenda for government and a politician who has not even “run...
...Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and many other prominent politicians and business leaders own property in Model Town....
...Ahsan Iqbal, a prominent politician from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz says: “The causes of this incident need to be examined, especially in the light of reports that there were specific intelligence...
...Ahsan Iqbal, a leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), said: “President Zardari himself has become increasingly the problem for Pakistan’s future....
...But such steps will also expose the real intentions of the PPP,” says Ahsan Iqbal, a leader of Mr Sharif’s party....
...Ahsan Iqbal, a senior leader of Mr Sharif’s party, said it would soon decide when the former prime minister would return....
...“It is unfortunate that General Musharraf’s regime instead of facing Mr Nawaz Sharif’s return politically is involving brotherly countries in the domestic politics of Pakistan” said Ahsan Iqbal, a senior...
...“We have advised Mr Sharif to return soon as his presence will be essential for us at this time,” said Ahsan Iqbal, a senior leader of the PML-N....
...We are very hopeful that the judiciary will make the right decisions,” said Ahsan Iqbal, a leader of Pakistan Muslim League (N), Mr Sharif’s centre-right political party....
...But Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, the secretary-general of the PML (N), denied there was any such offer from Mr Sharif....
...“This is a defining moment in the history of this country,” said Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, secretary-general of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, an umbrella organisation of Pakistan’s mainstream opposition...
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