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WASHINGTON: The US and Pakistani governments have reached a tacit agreement on Predator strikes on Pakistani territory, under which Islamabad allows them while continuing to complain about them and Washington never acknowledges them, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. (more…)

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Source:Reuters
by: Simon Cameron Moore

Pakistan cropped up with uncomfortable regularity during the U.S. presidential campaign, but listening to Barack Obama and John McCain it was difficult to discern how different their approach would be in dealing with one of America’s most complicated and conflicted allies.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari met leaders of both the Democrat and […]

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Source: Guardian
• Strikes creating ‘credibility gap’ says president
• Taliban and al-Qaida targeted in tribal area
Pakistan delivered a blunt message yesterday to America’s new military commander for the region, warning General David Petraeus on his first international trip since taking the job that US missile strikes inside Pakistan must stop.
Petraeus, credited with pulling Iraq back from […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan is turning to Saudi Arabia for financial aid to ease an economic crisis that already has forced the militancy-wracked South Asian nation to start talks with the International Monetary Fund.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrives Tuesday in the oil-rich Arab nation to request a deferral on oil payments and […]

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Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he would write a letter to the Indian prime minister to remind him of a promise to settle a dispute over a river.
Pakistan accuses India of violating a 1960 treaty by reducing the flow of water down the Chenab river, which flows from Indian […]

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Source: AFP
The top US diplomat for South Asia met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday and warned that international donors would only give carefully targeted aid to the troubled country.
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher visited Pakistan as its leaders face a growing Islamic militant insurgency and major economic difficulties.
But Boucher warned that […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Boucher meets NWFP governor, CM
* Assures Hoti ties will be strengthened
* Hoti says no compromise on government writ
* Ghani says lashkars guarantee war on terror success
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: President Asif Ali Zardari told United States Secretary of State Richard Boucher during a meeting that Afghan drug traffickers are funding terrorists in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, […]

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Source: DAWN
NEW YORK, Oct 4: Citing the threat posed by militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the possible economic meltdown, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the international community to give Pakistan $100 billion in grant to ensure the country’s survival.
“I need your help, if we fall, if we can’t do it, you can’t do […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 4 (PTI) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today reviewed security situation across the country with army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and both of them agreed to continue the military operation against the Taliban in the restive Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Kayani met Zardari at the presidential palace here and […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
A leading religious leader condemned Asif Ali Zardari’s comments to Sarah Palin at the UN.
Lahore, Pakistan - After the flirtation came the fatwa.
With some overly friendly comments to Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations, Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in uniting one of Pakistan’s hard-line mosques and its feminists after […]

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Source: Guardian
By Anil Dawar
The new Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, and his prime minister were due to dine at the Marriott hotel on the night it was devastated by a huge truck bomb, it was revealed today.
An interior ministry spokesman, Rehman Malik, said Zardari and Yousaf Raza Gillani changed their plans at the last minute […]

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Source : SUN
By ERIC MARGOLIS

The inauguration this week of Pakistan’s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the slain Benazir Bhutto, should have brought some hope and direction to embattled Pakistan.
It did not. A sense of weary deja vu hung over the event.
Zardari’s first major policy statement was a vow to continue waging the so-called […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog

All so called patriotic rallies, all sit-ins, all strikes and damages incurred to public properties and buildings, all efforts to get rid of a dictator have paid off! Democracy has won in Pakistan, Ladies, Gentlemen, Politicians, and Laywers (yes, the politicians and the lawyers are a separate […]

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Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan
IISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the next President of Pakistan after securing majority of votes in the presidential elections held here on Saturday.
Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan’s 11th President since 1956, when the country became a republic, excluding acting presidents.
According to the […]

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Source: Telegraph
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto and himself a leading contender for the country’s presidency, was suffering from severe mental illness as recently as last year, it has been reported.
Mr Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan People’s Party, was diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses, including dementia, major […]

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Source: Reuters

Gunmen killed a senior security officer for Asif Ali Zardari, head of Pakistan’s ruling party, in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and party officials said.
Zardari is the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law requiring candidates for Parliament to have bachelor’s degrees, clearing the way for the widower of former premier Benazir Bhutto to run for a seat and possibly prime minister.
The ruling was another sign of the dwindling influence of President Pervez Musharraf, who […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s new government may reinstate judges sacked by embattled President Pervez Musharraf by the end of this month, a party in the ruling coalition said on Monday.
The comment came as Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, met fellow coalition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif plans to run in June for Pakistan’s parliament, an aide said today, a move that could increase the pressure on the country’s U.S.-backed president.
Sharif may be joined in the National Assembly by Asif Ali Zardari, the widower and political successor of Benazir Bhutto. A […]

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Source: PK Politics
Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have reaffirmed the Pakistani Nation that judges will be restored in 30 days as per the Murree Declaration and restoration will not be linked to any constitutional package.

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Asif Ali Zardari, the Co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has proven that he really means business when he talks of national reconciliation. In fact, he has done something which many of his peers have so far failed to do and by doing which he has even surpassed the political acumen of his own party […]

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Source: Reuters
By Sheikh Mushtaq
SRINAGAR - Kashmiris accused Pakistani political parties on Monday of turning their back on them and their struggle against Indian occupation after last month’s elections in Pakistan.
Anger simmered in Kashmir after Asif Ali Zardari, leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), told an Indian television channel that relations between India and Pakistan […]

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Source: NASDAQ
The Pakistan government has closed graft cases against Pakistan’s People Party-PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari whose party will head a new coalition government after it emerged as the single largest party in the recently concluded general elections.
The termination of the corruption charges against the widow of former slain premier, Benazir Bhutto comes shortly after […]

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Source: Associated Press
Key figures in Pakistan’s parliamentary elections who could emerge as candidates for prime minister.
ASIF ALI ZARDARI: The widowed husband of Benazir Bhutto, who is now the head of her party. He did not contest Monday’s vote but can become a parliament member through a by-election. A divisive figure, Zardari was nicknamed “Mr. 10 […]

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