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...The pair fall easily into conversation about fame, poetry and Ali’s great-grandfather, who came from County Clare. Saadat Hasan Manto and Benazir Bhutto arrive together, looking pained....
...“This result has demonstrated the political cost of adopting painful measures at such a difficult time,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political commentator....
...Blaming the US could play well for Khan, said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a former chief minister of Punjab....
...This, I read, was the mausoleum of a long-forgotten Ottoman admiral, named Kilic Ali Pasha....
...Hasan Askari Rizvi, a former chief minister of Punjab and political commentator, says Khan faces his biggest political test to date....
...Through tapping the contacts book of producer Mekaal Hasan and searching the internet, he enlisted the band that gathered in a Lahore studio....
...It was like when Muhammad Ali fought Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976: neither side could harm the other. Now it’s more like Ali versus a six-year-old....
...Fathy Sayyed Mahmoud who runs a butchery in a middle class area of Cairo described how last year he cooked at the shop for hundreds of people....
...“Congress is hesitating to give tickets to Muslims; there is Hindu-Muslim polarisation and they fear a Hindu mobilisation behind the BJP,” said Zoya Hasan, a political scientist....
...Sausan Ali al-Sayyed, a young Palestinian shopkeeper who was born in Lebanon, hops over stagnant pools of water and mounds of rubbish, which sometimes contain needles, to reach her home....
...Shadowless, by Hasan Ali Toptas, translated by Maureen Freely and John Angliss, Bloomsbury RRP£16.99, 303 pages...
...“We are running out of options,” says Ashfaque Hasan Khan, a former senior official at the finance ministry and now economics professor at Islamabad’s National University of Sciences and Technology....
...Ashwin was caught behind off Hasan Ali, the bowler of the tournament. From 152-6 to last man out for 158 in 24 balls, Pakistan had comprehensively beaten their arch rivals by 180 runs....
...“Sayyed” is a title that denotes lineage from the Prophet Mohammed in Shia Islam, while Dhulfiqar was the name of the sword used by Ali, one of the sect’s most revered figures....
...“Pakistan is losing out here on Afghanistan and possibly even central Asia,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a commentator on politics and security....
...“The PKK is a organisation that learns,” says Nihat Ali Oczan, a former major in the Turkish army and security analyst....
...“China has its own strategic reasons to help Pakistan in this area,” said Ali Sarwar Naqvi, a former senior Pakistani diplomat....
...Speaking in Lebanon before the strike, Hizbollah leader Sayyed Nasrallah warned that the group reserved the right to respond to Israeli attacks on Syria, and pointed out that it possessed Iranian Fateh 110...
...The warning from parties including the Pakistan People’s party led by former president Asif Ali Zardari was delivered on Wednesday to both Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician, and moderate Islamic...
...“The window of opportunity to settle the situation and move on appears to be closing rapidly for the prime minister,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political commentator....
...Ali Sayyed’s murder last week epitomises the dilemma of Lebanon’s Sunnis, who are increasingly both the source and victims of radical Islamists seeking a foothold in the Mediterranean state....
...This decision will be widely seen as a total failure of the government,” says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a commentator on national security and politics....
...“This is a hidden coup which no one will be able to call a coup,” said an adviser to Asif Ali Zardari, the former prime minister....
...Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbollah, calls these intrusions into Syria divinely sanctioned resistance, protecting the Shia and other minorities from the savagery of Sunni jihadi extremism....
...Ali Babacan, deputy prime minister responsible for the economy, said the investigation, which has targeted a number of figures close to the government, had prompted the fall in the market capitalisation...
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