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NEWS ABOUT: Asif Ali Zardari

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 Biden Starts Swing 
 Through Southwest Asia 

VP-elect in Pakistan today; expected to visit India, Afghanistan

Jan 9, 09 5:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Joe Biden arrived in Pakistan today at the start of a tour of Southwest Asia, AFP reports. The vice-president-elect is leading a congressional delegation that includes Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and other Pakistani leaders are likely to focus on the war on terror and... More »

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Joe Biden • Pakistan • Lindsey Graham • Asif Ali Zardari • Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Former Clinton Pollster Quits
as Lobbyist for Pakistani Party

Campaign still owes Mark Penn $5 million

Dec 29, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - It could get awkward for the secretary of state to be deeply in debt to a flack for the political party running one of the most incendiary countries in the world. That could be why pollster Mark Penn has ended his company's relationship with Pakistan’s ruling People’s Party,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Pakistan • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Mark Penn • Burson-Marsteller

Pakistan Mourns Bhutto on Anniversary of Slaying

Government calls for UN to probe former PM's assasssination

Dec 27, 08 2:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have traveled to Benazir Bhutto's hometowm to mark the first anniversary of her assassination, Reuters reports. The former prime minister was killed in a gun and bomb attack at an election rally a year ago today. Many questions still surround the killing and the country's... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • People's Power Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Bhutto assassination

OPINION

 West Should Buy Out 
 Pakistan's Nukes 

Trading needed aid dollars for elimination of WMDs would be cheap compared to bailout

Dec 16, 08 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal has done nothing to steady its economy or deter terrorism, Bret Stephens notes in the Wall Street Journal—so why not sell it to the West? Pakistan has already lobbied for economic aid; for eliminating “its entire nuclear stockpile and the industrial base that sustains... More »

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Pakistan • nuclear weapons • nuclear disarmament • Asif Ali Zardari • nuclear arsenal • international aid • President Obama • economic aid

India Fighter Jets
Buzz Pakistan

Pakistan downplays 'accident,' while Brown reads riot act to Zardari

Dec 14, 08 8:20 AM CST
(Newser) - India fighter jets crossed into Pakistan territory yesterday before being intercepted by Pakistani aircraft who harried them back to their own nation, according to officials in Islamabad. The jets buzzed two regions where Indian officials charge that terrorists are being trained, reports the New York Times. Pakistan downplayed the "... More »

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Pakistan • India • Gordon Brown • Kashmir • Mumbai • Asif Ali Zardari • Lashkar-e-Taiba • terror attack • Mumbai attacks

OPINION

Zardari: Mumbai Attack Targeted Pakistan, Too

Terrorists sought to impede country's peace process with India

Dec 9, 08 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan played no part in the Mumbai attacks, President Asif Ali Zardari writes in today’s New York Times, except perhaps as a co-victim. The attacks “were directed not only at India,” he writes, “but at Pakistan’s new democratic government and the peace process with... More »

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Pakistan • India • Benazir Bhutto • Mumbai • Asif Ali Zardari • Mumbai attacks

Alleged Mumbai Masterminds Test Pakistan

Banned terror group has operated for years with elite backing

Dec 4, 08 6:42 AM CST
(Newser) - As evidence mounts that the Mumbai attackers had links to a Pakistani militant organization, the nation's new civilian government is facing the toughest test yet of its ability—and its will—to stop terrorism. Pakistan has banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for the attacks. But the Islamist group has operated... More »

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War on Terror • Pakistan • India • Condoleezza Rice • Mumbai • Asif Ali Zardari • Islamic terrorism • terrorist attack • terrorist groups • Pakistan intelligence services • Lashkar-e-Taiba

 Rice: Pakistan's Ready
  to Crack Down on Terror 

India issues airport terror alert after new threats

Dec 4, 08 4:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan is prepared to take urgent action against terrorists, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after talks with leaders today. The meeting stressed Pakistan's duty to combat "those who may use Pakistani territory, even if they are non-state actors," in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, she said.... More »

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Pakistan • India • Condoleezza Rice • Mumbai • Asif Ali Zardari • suspected terrorists • terrorist attack • Yousaf Raza Gilani • Lashkar-e-Taiba

Pakistan Moves to Mend Fences With India

Zadari extends olive branch, proposes economic union

Nov 24, 08 12:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan has proposed an economic pact and a general détente with India, marking the country’s friendliest overture in decades, the Financial Times reports. Asif Ali Zardari promised not to use his nuclear first-strike capabilities, a departure from Pakistan’s official policy, and offered to join India in... More »

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nuclear proliferation • Pakistan • India • trade • Asif Ali Zardari • nuclear arsenal

 Pakistan Warns 
 Petraeus on 
 Missile Attacks 

General told that US cross-border strikes are giving anti-American Islamists a boost

Nov 4, 08 6:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan has told the new chief of US Central Command that missile strikes inside its territory must stop, the Guardian reports. Gen. David Petraeus was warned that the strikes on suspected al-Qaeda militants in tribal areas across the Afghan border are fanning anti-American sentiment and creating a "credibility" ... More »

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Pakistan • David Petraeus • Asif Ali Zardari • tribal areas • al-Qaeda • US-Pakistan relations • missile strike

Zardari Slapped With Fatwa for Flirting With Palin

Pakistani feminists also angry at president for 'shameful' behavior

Oct 2, 08 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asif Ali Zardari’s overly-friendly interaction with Sarah Palin earned Pakistan’s president a fatwa from a conservative mosque for salacious behavior, not to mention the scorn of feminists who accuse him of objectifying the US vice-presidential candidate, the Christian Science Monitor reports. At the UN last week, Zardari told... More »

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Pakistan • sexism • Muslim • Benazir Bhutto • fatwa • feminists • Asif Ali Zardari • Election 2008 • conservative Islam • Sarah Palin

Pakistan Bomb Near Miss for President, PM

Zardari was scheduled to be at reception when Marriott exploded

Sep 22, 08 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's president and prime minister were supposed to be at a reception at the Islamabad hotel where a huge bomb killed at least 60 people and injured 270, reports the Times of London. Asif Ali Zardari and Yousaf Raza Gilani were expected to attend a large dinner at the Marriott,... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamabad • Marriott • truck bomb • Asif Ali Zardari • Baitullah Mehsud • al-Qaeda • Yousaf Raza Gilani

Pakistan Bomb Toll Climbs
to 53, Al-Qaeda Accused

Nearly 300 wounded in Marriott blast

Sep 21, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistani intelligence authorities have blamed al-Qaeda for a massive bomb attack that has so far claimed 53 lives, Reuters reports. The truck bomb slammed into an Islamabad Marriott yesterday, turning the busy hotel into an inferno of flame. The Czech ambassador to Pakistan, and an American and German national were... More »

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Pakistan • bomb • Marriott • truck bomb • Asif Ali Zardari • al-Qaeda

 Bush Ordered 
 Raids Without 
 Pakistan OK 

White House suspicious of Pakistan intelligence ties to militants

Sep 11, 08 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush green-lighted orders allowing American special forces to conduct raids inside Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government, senior US officials told the New York Times. One raid took place last week and more are expected as the US steps up its actions against al-Qaeda militants—despite the... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • US military • Waziristan • Afghan border • Asif Ali Zardari • tribal areas • al-Qaeda

 Pakistan's 
 Zardari 
 Sworn In 

New president under pressure to tackle Islamic militants

Sep 9, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(AP) - Asif Ali Zardari took office as Pakistan's new president today, facing immediate pressure to crack down on Islamic militants and address daunting economic problems. Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai was present at a brief ceremony to swear in the widower of assassinated ex-PM Benazir Bhutto, his presence an imposing reminder of... More »

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Afghanistan • terrorism • Pakistan • Hamid Karzai • Benazir Bhutto • Asif Ali Zardari

Zardari Breezes Into Pakistani Presidency

Bhutto's widower backed by
Parliament, US

Sep 6, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated Benazir Bhutto, easily won Pakistan’s presidential election today in an unsurprising outcome favored by the US, the New York Times reports. Zardari, who has little governing experience, gains significant authority, including the ability to dissolve Parliament—a power he has pledged to forego.... More »

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Pakistan • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • presidential election

Pakistan Prez Comes With
Lots of Baggage

Bhutto's widower,
the prisoner playboy, takes reins tomorrow

Sep 5, 08 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Asif Ali Zardari was once merely Benazir Bhutto’s polo-loving playboy of a husband, who was jailed for corruption and suspected of much worse. But tomorrow, he’ll become president of Pakistan. Bhutto’s death made Zardari an almost accidental leader of his party, and friends say his ignominious past... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari

OPINION

Pakistani Democracy Is Achievable: Bhutto Widower

Zardari: stakes high in Saturday's elections

Sep 4, 08 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan, still reeling from Benazir Bhutto's assassination and Pervez Musharraf's resignation, can get a grip on terrorists and win the fight against dictatorship, insists Bhutto’s widower in a Washington Post op-ed outlining the stakes in Saturday's election. Asif Ali Zardari, who’s running for president, vows to continue his... More »

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terrorism • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • democracy • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Pakistan elections • Asif Ali Zardari

Pakistan's Sharif Faces Charges of Corruption

Prosecutors go after former PM days before presidential vote

Sep 2, 08 8:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nawaz Sharif, whose party recently pulled out of Pakistan's ruling coalition, is about to face corruption charges, Pakistani prosecutors said today. A two-time prime minister whom Pervez Musharraf deposed in 1999, Sharif will be charged with money laundering and loan defaults, as well as "the accumulation of wealth beyond... More »

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Pakistan • corruption • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan elections • Asif Ali Zardari • presidential election • corruption charges

Bhutto Widower Plagued by Mental Illness

Presidential contender Zardari has suffered from dementia, PTSD

Aug 26, 08 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The leading candidate to succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan has a long history of mental illness and was suffering from severe psychiatric problems as recently as 2007, reports the Financial Times. Asif Ali Zardari, who took over the Pakistan People's Party after the assassination of his wife Benazir... More »

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Pakistan • mental illness • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • post-traumatic stress disorder

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