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...“Everyone knows what’s happening in Pakistan,” said Mohsin Raza, a 21-year-old university student, referring to the crackdown on the PTI. “They have already ruled Pakistan for over 30 years....
...In the same month, Imran Ahmad Khan, the Tory MP for Wakefield was forced to step down after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008....
...The vote count suggested a break in Khan’s PTI party, with as many as 16 party members either voting for the finance minister’s opponent, former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, or spoiling their ballots...
...minister alleged that around 15 of his lawmakers had been “bought” to vote against Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who led government negotiations with the IMF, after opposition-backed former prime minister Yusuf Raza...
...“There is rollover risk a year from now but [portfolio investment] inflows buy the government time to raise funding from other sources,” said Raza Jafri, director of research at Karachi-based Intermarket...
Pakistan prime minister talks to the FT about relations with India and China
...Sardar Raza Khan, the chief election commissioner, said: “There is no stain on the electoral process....
...Sardar Raza Khan, chairman of the Election Commission of Pakistan defended the polls in a pre-dawn press conference. “The elections have been 100 per cent fair and transparent,” he said....
...Raza Khan, a peace activist who has advocated a rapprochement with India, went missing from Lahore this month. Similar disappearances have occurred in Bangladesh....
...Quetta’s 500,000 Shia are mostly Hazara, who trace their lineage to Genghis Khan’s invading Mongol armies....
...Said to have been founded by a Hindu raja, it was laid out in its present form by Dost Mohammed Khan, a Muslim warrior from Afghanistan, in the 18th century....
...When we asked what the biggest change has been in the five years since the last election, Mohammed Raza Khan, 40, told us: “Prices have gone up a lot that’s the biggest change… The poor are fed up.”...
...Gunmen abducted one of the sons of Pakistan’s former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday when they stormed a rally on the last day of campaigning in the country’s parliamentary election....
...“As long as I’ve looked at Morocco, I’ve never seen such fiscal problems,” said Raza Agha, chief economist for the Middle East and Africa at VTB Capital in London....
...Yusuf Raza Gilani, Mr Ashraf’s immediate predecessor, was dismissed only last year, also by the Supreme Court....
...Tuesday’s ruling was in response to a petition by Pakistan’s two main opposition parties, led by Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister, and Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician, that challenged...
...The Supreme Court spared Yusuf Raza Gilani a prison sentence – he faced up to six months in jail – but the prime minister could still be disqualified from parliament and forced to step down, plunging Pakistan...
...People cannot trust him,” said Umar Khan, an industrial worker who recently became unemployed....
...Meanwhile, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister, on Thursday evening told youth party members in Islamabad that the nuclear-armed nation risked the return of military rule....
...Kabul had postponed a meeting between US, Afghan and Pakistani officials scheduled for October 8 and a planned visit by Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister, an Afghan official said....
...Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, and Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, immediately condemned the blasts and expressed their sympathy with the Indian leadership for the loss of lives and property...
...Imran Khan, an opposition politician, said Pakistan’s leaders needed to confront the army, much as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had done while premier in the 1970s....
...Ijaz Khan, owner of the 600-truck Shaheen Freight Services in Peshawar, says: “The agreement may be signed but the reality will be different. It’s wishful thinking.”...
...Indian analysts do not believe the violence will derail the government’s diplomatic overture to Pakistan, whose prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, denounced the attacks. T.C.A....
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