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...In October, Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan after four years of self-imposed exile....
...The FT also reported that in 2016, Naqvi authorised a $20mn payment allegedly intended for Shehbaz and his brother Nawaz Sharif, who served as prime minister before Pakistan’s Supreme Court removed him from...
...By dismissing the vote of no confidence, “the prime minister has subverted the constitution”, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a former prime minister and senior politician from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...
...Shahid Astori, a 27-year-old electrical engineer, voted against Imran Khan when he was first elected as prime minister in 2018....
...“They have punished him in a false case,” said Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a PML-N leader who served as prime minister following Mr Sharif’s removal. “People will not accept this verdict”....
...Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the country’s former prime minister and a senior PML-N member, told the FT: “There has been coercion on members of our party to switch sides, with many of them being threatened with...
...The scourge of crime led novelist Omar Shahid Hamid to write that Karachi had “spread like a cancer, random and menacing....
...The Pakistani government of prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will seek up to $1bn from the country’s expatriates worldwide to boost its falling foreign reserves before it leaves office in May, a central...
...A Pakistani court has ordered the arrest of the country’s finance minister, in a further blow to prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbassi’s increasingly beleaguered government....
...Since his ouster, Mr Sharif has helped install Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, one of his most loyal allies, as prime minister, and seen his wife Kulsoom Nawaz win his recently vacated Lahore seat in a by-election...
...Pakistan’s deposed prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has changed his mind about installing his younger brother in his place over fears that such a move would loosen the family’s grip on its Punjab power base...
...Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a Sharif ally who has replaced him as prime minister, told the FT: “If we get re-elected next year, Nawaz Sharif will be the real prime minister . . ....
...“This provides an opportunity to work instead with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the current prime minister.”...
...Analysts and politicians from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz warned that the army’s involvement in settling the crisis could weaken significantly the authority of the government....
...In the interim, Mr Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party has agreed that Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a former petroleum minister and staunch loyalist of the Sharif family, should serve as interim prime minister...
...Nawaz Sharif has moved swiftly to ensure a smooth transition of power since he was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister last week....
...Gen Bajwa met Pakistan’s prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday, where according to officials he made it clear that the army would not use force to restore order....
...The new prime minister, Shahid Abbasi, who was handpicked by Mr Sharif, has not yet demonstrated his independence or his intentions to take on difficult decisions....
...Just days after the Financial Times revealed that the US was considering stripping Pakistan of its status as an ally because of a perceived failure to tackle terrorism, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the hardline...
...Letter in response to this article: Pakistan’s reserves are no cause for concern / From Shahid Mahmood, Goverenment of Pakistan...
...The government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif has sought to ease the crisis....
...Pakistan’s energy-starved economy currently has a deficit of 2bn cubic feet of gas per day, rising to 2.5bn cu ft per day during the winter months, according to Shahid Khaqan Abbasi....
...“We are in a state of war,” Shahidullah Shahid, spokesman for the group, said in a statement....
...“We are successfully achieving all our targets and we will go on carrying out many more such attacks,” Shahidullah Shahid, Pakistani Taliban spokesman, told Reuters....
...We will carry out many more attacks such as this again,” Shahidullah Shahid, Pakistani Taliban spokesman, told Reuters....
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