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...But Shaukat Tarin, the finance minister, has recently warned of an “overheating” economy and a climbing import bill....
...Sheikh Shaukat Hussain, a law professor, has been reduced to finding sticks to cook food in his garden in the Rambagh district of Srinagar. “It’s the 12th day today,” he says....
...“The biggest mistake may have been that he probably thought returning to Pakistan would be like taking charge in 1999 while he was in uniform,” said Shaukat Qadir, a political and security analyst and retired...
...On top of this, Mr Ashraf faces a likely confrontation with the supreme court, which wants to reopen corruption cases involving President Asif Ali Zardari....
...“It is not that investors are blindly coming in to the stock market,” says Nasir Ali Shah Bukhari, head of the Karachi based Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari business group, which has interests in banking and the...
...Shaukat Qadir, a retired brigadier who writes on security issues, said the military was pressing the government to sack Mr Haqqani....
...Shaukat Qadir, a security expert and former brigadier, said: “If the situation continues to escalate and it grows to a point where there is open war on the streets of Karachi, that could even bring down...
...Ghazanfar Ali, an analyst and former brigadier, said the militants were trying to create alarm about the security surrounding Pakistan’s nuclear weapons....
...Speaking to the Financial Times, Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s finance minister, said: “We can’t continue with this project in its present form. We have to protect our key national interests.”...
...FT: Do you share your finance minister Shaukat Tarin’s concern about the high costs associated with larger US aid flows?...
...President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday approved introduction of Islamic law in the Swat area. Pakistani government officials claim the new law was necessary to restore peace to the area....
...Officials said Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, was likely to attend the event, which will be co-hosted by the World Bank....
...Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s de facto finance minister, will head to Tokyo confident that he is stabilising the economy....
...Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani president, this week repeated his call for Pakistan to be assisted with a modern day ‘Marshall Plan’....
...Shaukat Tarin, Pakistan’s de facto finance minister, said last week, Pakistan wanted the IMF loan to be raised to US$12b....
...Shaukat Qadir, a military analyst, says the problem is political inaction rather than lack of military resolve....
...A key challenge for both Mr Tarin and Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, will be to persuade landowners to end their immunity from income tax....
...Making everyone pay their taxes is in our interest,” said Shaukat Tarin, the prime minister’s adviser on finance and the de facto finance minister, in a Financial Times interview....
...Shaukat Tarin, appointed last week as financial adviser to Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, said on Saturday that IMF assistance was one of the options on the table....
...Shaukat Tarin, the country’s de facto finance minister, is no stranger to adversity. He relishes a reputation for defying the odds....
...A Pakistani finance ministry official said meetings in Washington this week between Shaukat Tarin, the prime minister’s advisor on finance, and World Bank officials concluded with a “fresh understanding”...
...Pakistan has to take action in the next 30 days” said Shaukat Tarin, financial adviser to the prime minister....
...We hired a flat at Bangash Colony, Rawalpindi, and started residing in it. Afzal had located a house where he thought we would get a large amount....
...Speculation has been rife in Pakistan that Mr Gilani’s appointment is a stop gap arrangement to allow time for Asif Ali Zardari, Ms Bhutto’s widower, to contest a parliamentary seat in order to take over...
...Asif Ali Zardari Widower of Benazir Bhutto, he was elected by her Pakistan People’s party as its co-chairman after Ms Bhutto’s assassination last December....
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