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...On January 16, it mounted a rare strike in Pakistan, targeting Jaish ul-Adl, another Sunni militant group. Islamabad responded with missile attacks against Pakistani separatists in Iran....
...Pakistan’s private TV channels this week reported cases where some people aboard the capsized ship had paid approximately U$7700, or about 77 times the minimum monthly wage as price for their journey....
...Shahzada and Suleman Dawood come from one of Pakistan’s best-known business families, which controls a large fertiliser manufacturer along with textile and energy businesses....
...The nurse lives on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, working two jobs to support her ageing parents and three younger siblings....
...And so he’s also pondering the U-turn. There have been efforts at rapprochement with help from Russia, which is trying to push a Turkey-Syria rapprochement that includes Iran....
...India, an ally of Ghani, hastily closed its consulates around the country as the Taliban advanced....
...But he has faced criticism for his failure to lift the economy — Pakistan is under a U$6bn IMF loan programme — and to deliver on his promise to create an Islamic welfare state....
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels, Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad and Ayla Jean Yackley in Istanbul...
...She said there were particularly high numbers of visa-holding travellers citing invalid reasons arriving from west Africa — including Lagos, in Nigeria, Delhi, in India and Islamabad, in Pakistan....
...region, which has slowed significantly since a new government took power in Islamabad in August 2018....
...The group considers Chinese investment in the region to be a form of colonisation and also claimed responsibility for an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi in November that left two police officers...
...Mahmud Durrani, a former national security adviser to the prime minister’s office, told the Financial Times that Islamabad had to reassure Beijing, a close military ally and Pakistan’s largest supplier of...
...financial support comes as the Saudi leadership and the country’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, are embroiled in controversy over the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate...
...Analysts said the government’s policy U-turn was set in motion by protests in October by employees of Utility Stores Corporation , reputed to be one of the worst-managed state companies in Pakistan, prompting...
...Saudi Arabia, a longtime ally of Islamabad, condemned the attack and promised security co-operation with India....
...During this time, the company has invested approximately U$3.5bn in Pakistan’s telecom sector where the demand for voice communication has quickly added to a rapidly growing number of data customers....
...Sunday’s attack also raised wider questions over security across Baluchistan — a region at the centre of China’s plans to invest up to U$60bn in Pakistan....
...British artist Idris Khan has been commissioned by AIE to create a new composite for the US embassy in Islamabad — a stamp painting incorporating English text and Arabic calligraphy — which is due to go...
...Pakistan has halted an order to shut down the offices of Save the Children in Islamabad, just days after the international charity was given 15 days to leave the country....
...This time, it seems, it is serious. http://on.ft.com/14weHfS China’s Li offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier...
...A suicide bomb attack on a US consulate vehicle in Pakistan has left at least three people dead and 19 injured, according to local police authorities....
...The US government has bought television advertising slots in Pakistan denouncing the recent controversial anti-Islam video amid huge new demonstrations near the US embassy in Islamabad....
...In Benghazi in Libya, thousands of people joined a pro-democracy protest against the Islamist militia which stormed the US consulate there, according to Reuters....
...For example he accompanied her in opposition in August 2008 to meet the Pakistani prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, in private talks at the national assembly in Islamabad....
...advertising slots in Pakistan denouncing the recent controversial anti-Islam video amid huge new demonstrations near the US embassy in Islamabad, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4151e082-...
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