Search results for ‘President Asif Ali Zardari’
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David Cameron: ‘Now is the time’ for Taliban peace talks
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.
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Pakistan President Zardari arrives in India for talks
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.
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Searching for a strategy to combat the Taliban
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…
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Christian girl held for blasphemy in Pakistan
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.
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Pakistan PM Gilani charged with contempt
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.
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Polls close in Pakistan: but were elections ‘free and fair’?
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.
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Prosecutor in Benazir Bhutto murder case shot dead
Pakistan’s leading state prosecutor investigating cases including the assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead in Islamabad.
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Pakistan: General Musharraf in custody for two weeks
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.
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Malala shooting ‘a crime against women’
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”.
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Obama concern over Yemeni extremism
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.
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Pakistan’s PM guilty of contempt in corruption trial
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.
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Pakistan avalanche buries 150 soldiers
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.
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Imran Khan: up close and personal
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.
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Is Pakistan heading for a coup?
Recent events suggest Pakistan could be facing a “behind the scenes coup”, a leading expert tells Channel 4 News.
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Mumbai rocked by three explosions
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.