Author: Munir Ahmed
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Shehbaz Sharif returns as Pakistan’s new premier as Imran Khan allies in parliament allege rigging
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Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif for a comeback term as prime minister
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Imprisoned former Pakistani premier Khan appeals 3 recent convictions
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A lawyer for former Prime Minister Imran Khan says the legal team has appealed his recent convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases
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Pakistan’s premier defends the delay in releasing election results and denies the vote was unfair
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Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister is defending the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week’s parliamentary election
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Pakistan’s ex-PM Sharif says he will seek a coalition government after trailing jailed rival Khan
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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he will seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, in parliamentary election results
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Ex-Pakistani PM Sharif strikes confident note in vote marred by controversy, mobile phone shutdown
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expressing confidence his party will win national elections
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Bombings at Pakistani political offices kill at least 30 a day before parliamentary elections
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Bombs have ripped through two separate political offices in southwestern Pakistan a day before the country is set to elect a new parliament
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Pakistan downgrades diplomatic ties with India over Kashmir
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ISLAMABAD • The political crisis over the disputed territory of Kashmir escalated Wednesday when Pakistan said it would downgrade its diplomatic ties with India, expel the Indian ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its regional rival. Indian authorities have clamped a complete shutdown on Muslim-majority Kashmir as the Hindu-led nationalist government in New Delhi scrapped…
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Family held captive by Taliban-linked group released
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WASHINGTON — Five years after they were seized by a terrorist network in the mountains of Afghanistan, an American woman, her Canadian husband and their children — all three born in captivity — are free after a dramatic rescue orchestrated by the U.S. and Pakistani governments, officials said Thursday. The U.S. said Pakistan accomplished the…
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Activist girl’s dad vows she’ll return to Pakistan
Activist girl’s dad vows she’ll return to PakistanMUNIR AHMED,Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite new insurgent threats against her. Since she was shot on Oct. 9…
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Pakistan: Bin Laden hunter from Colo. on mission from God
ISLAMABAD — An American construction worker detained in Pakistan while on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden claimed Wednesday that he was obeying an order from God to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Pakistani security officials. Gary Brooks Faulkner, of Greeley, said God revealed the order in one of his dreams,…