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...He said that in 2001, Richard Armitage, US deputy secretary of state, had threatened to bomb Pakistan back into the stone age if he did not co-operate. Washington denied the claim....
...and bright, spacious cafés Not so good for: Most locations close at 3pm FYI: The company’s first café and site of its roastery on Semlin Drive was once a fish-processing plant that Pallet’s founders, Sharif...
...Richard Carleton, the Australian interviewer asks the then Pakistani prime minister. Mr Sharif laughs in response: “I offered him [that] a long time ago,” he says....
...The FT's US west coast editor, Richard Waters, has more....
...(FT, NYT) In the news Sharif dismissed Pakistan’s supreme court has ousted the country’s prime minister from office in the dramatic culmination of a long-running scandal over his family’s unexplained wealth...
...Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, said following the Unesco announcement that Mr Trump had found his foreign policy theme, naming it “The Withdrawal Doctrine”....
...Elsewhere, Richard McGregor writes that the Republican president-elect has a decades-long antagonistic stance toward economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region....
...“We are watching the situation very closely,” he told Mr Kissinger, who masterminded the Sino-US detente as President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state. “Now is a period of transition.”...
...More recently, he found something that suited his expertise even more: Numerai, a small San Francisco-based hedge fund founded by Richard Craib, a South African mathematician....
...President Barack Obama banned all references to the Vietnam war when discussing Afghanistan, according to the late Richard Holbrooke....
...“A clear failure is really a gift,” says Richard Moross, founder of Moo.com, a maker of personalised business cards. “The problem is when the data is fuzzy, when you have some users, some traction....
...Founded by Mr Hannam in 2010, AGMC is run by former SAS commander Richard Williams....
...Draw your ideas to think differently. ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Research stretches past ivory towers / From Prof Amir M Sharif...
...david.pilling@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: The US itself has shown tolerance towards terrorism / From Mr Richard Waterhouse...
...Omar Sharif, the actor, has lived in them since his early 30s....
...Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum, says plans are on track, dismissing more rumours that the project will be put on hold again....
...People like the Stones – and, indeed, Richard Neville, who had a well-paying column in the Evening Standard – were working....
...Richard Soultanian of Nus Consulting, who advises companies on financial decisions, said: “Gridlock can be a positive when the country’s underlying economy and fiscal situation are in good order....
...It has also proved a formidable one, making strikes from Mazar-e-Sharif to Lahore. The rising death toll of US and British soldiers reflects the tough going....
...Richard Holbrooke, US special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, said: ”We applaud the statesmanlike act by President Zardari and hope that it will help defuse a dangerous confrontation so that...
...Earlier this week, Richard Holbrooke, the top US civilian official on Afghanistan, warned that earlier delays to the Afghan presidential election had put at risk efforts to tackle corruption and improve...
...In a statement released by its embassy in Islamabad, the US hailed the move as a “substantial step towards national reconciliation”, while Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...“They [the US] probably want both Zardari and Sharif to have some conciliation.”...
...Mr Zardari is locked in a debilitating power struggle with Mr Sharif....
...Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister, is expected to meet Richard Holbrooke, US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Washington on Thursday to discuss Iran’s possible participation in the regional...
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