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Pakistan ex-premier's party sweeps elections
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan's powerful military and is viewed by many...
Tags: National Government, Pervez Musharraf, Small Businesses, Politics, Parliament
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Pakistan's Sharif: Seasoned leader is seen as soft on extremists
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections this weekend returns to power a seasoned politician who historically has had rocky ties with Pakistan’s powerful military and is...
Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Parliament, Politics, Small Businesses, Nawaz Sharif
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Injured Pakistani politician Imran Khan may end campaigning
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Imran Khan, the former cricket star who heads up one of the leading parties in national elections set for Saturday, suffered three fractured vertebrae and a broken rib in a fall in the eastern city of Lahore this week and probably...
Tags: Politics, Nawaz Sharif, Government, Fractured Rib, Asif Ali Zardari
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Bombs kill 15 at campaign rallies in northwest Pakistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two bomb blasts killed at least 15 people and injured more than 40 on Tuesday at campaign rallies in northwest Pakistan, authorities said, the latest in a wave of attacks in recent weeks aimed at derailing parliamentary...Tags: Suicide, Politics, Islamabad (Pakistan), Explosions, Bombings
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Former cricketer Imran Khan injured in fall at Pakistan rally
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Former cricketer Imran Khan suffered minor head injuries Tuesday after falling from a forklift platform that was lifting him to a stage at a campaign rally in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Khan, whose political party is...
Tags: Elizabeth II, Pakistan
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Mohsin Hamid on 'Filthy Rich' and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'
Join us for a live video chat April 23 at 10 a.m. with Mohsin Hamid, author of the novels "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," which was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker prize. A film adaptation of "The...
Tags: Riz Ahmed, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Pakistan
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Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan
Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...
Tags: England, Literature, Princeton University, Graham Greene, Islam
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Portland man charged with aiding suicide bomber in Pakistan
SEATTLE—A Portland, Ore., man was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday on charges of aiding one of three suicide bombers who conducted a deadly attack near the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore in 2009. At least 30 people...
Tags: Prosecution, Sri Lanka, Suicide, Bombings, Justice System
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Pakistan declares Friday a day of protest against anti-Islam film
World NowPakistan continued to seethe Wednesday over the release in the U.S. of a movie trailer mocking Islam, as legions of protesters rallied in several large cities for a sixth day and the government signaled its own discontent by declaring Friday as a national... -
Pakistanis rally against film mocking Muhammad
World NowAbout 200 Pakistanis gathered in the capital Friday to protest a southern California man’s release of a film trailer that mocked the prophet Muhammad, angrily extolling Muslims to unite against the U.S.... -
Thousands protest reopening of NATO supply routes in Pakistan
World NowIn Pakistan, thousands of followers of leading Islamist clerics began marching July 8 from the eastern city of Lahore to the capital, Islamabad, to protest Pakistan’s decision to once again let NATO move Afghanistan-bound supply convoys through... -
Iran media warned off of reporting negatively on economy, sanctions
World NowMedia workers in Iran say government monitors are telling journalists to refrain from reporting about the impact of Western sanctions on the country's economy and about soaring prices for everyday goods....
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