Search results for ‘President Asif Ali Zardari’

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  • 4 Feb 2013

    David Cameron calls for the Taliban to enter talks on the future of Afghanistan, ahead of the withdrawal of British and US troops over the next year.

  • 8 Apr 2012

    President Asif Ali Zardari meets the Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi, as the nuclear-armed foes seek to thaw relations in the first visit by a Pakistani head of state in seven years.

  • 7 May 2009

    Jets and helicopters are bombing Taliban forces in Pakistan’s Swat valley and the timing can hardly be coincidental. Thousands – possibly hundreds of thousands – of Pakistanis could be fleeing their homes this week onwards, as their President, Asif Ali Zardari, is in Washington trying to convince lawmakers he is serious about taking on Taliban…

  • 20 Aug 2012

    Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari calls for a report into the arrest and imprisonment of a Christian girl accused of desecrating pages of the Koran.

  • 13 Feb 2012

    Pakistan’s Supreme Court charges Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani with contempt for failing to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, deepening Pakistan’s political crisis.

  • 11 May 2013

    Polls close in Pakistan on an election day that saw at least 11 killed in an attack at ANP party offices in Karachi and complaints from the city voters of irregularities and intimidation.

  • 3 May 2013

    Pakistan’s leading state prosecutor investigating cases including the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead in Islamabad.

  • 20 Apr 2013

    A Pakistan court remands former president Pervez Musharraf in custody for two weeks as judges step up plans to put him on trial over claims of an illegal crackdown on the judiciary when in power.

  • 17 Oct 2012

    Former Afghan MP Malalai Joya – who has survived several assassination attempts – describes the shooting of Malala Yousafzai as “a crime against women by dark-minded fundamentalists”.

  • 22 May 2012

    The US president says he is worried Yemen is drawing foreign terrorists who once may have gone to Pakistan’s border, after a suicide bomber killed more than 90 soldiers in Sanaa.

  • 26 Apr 2012

    Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is guilty of contempt for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president, but his sentence was only a symbolic three minutes in the courtroom.

  • 7 Apr 2012

    An avalanche has buried more than 100 Pakistani soldiers – with no signs of survivors – at a military camp near the Siachen glacier on the border with India.

  • 26 Jan 2012

    Channel 4 News gets up close and personal with Imran Khan – a man dismissed by his opponents as a cricket-loving lightweight, but who now attracts hundreds of thousands to his political rallies.

  • 20 Jan 2012

    Recent events suggest Pakistan could be facing a “behind the scenes coup”, a leading expert tells Channel 4 News.

  • 13 Jul 2011

    At least 20 people are reported dead and more than 100 wounded after three blasts in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, during the evening rush hour.