Word: zardari
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...force claimed that Indian planes intruded as much as 2 miles (4 km) into the country, but the government says it accepted Indian assurances that the incursions were inadvertent. The Indian government, for its part, denied publicly that an incursion took place at all. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari dismissed the incident at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday, calling it a "technical incursion - two planes flying 50,000 miles up in the air; when they turned, they slightly entered Pakistan soil." Brown was in Islamabad after visiting India and Afghanistan to discuss security...
...charitable wing, Jamaat-ud-Daawa, until its leader was put under house arrest on Thursday. Pakistani analysts suggest that the "inadvertent" incursion may have been a warning that if strong action was not taken against the accused terror group by Pakistan, India would take matters into its own hands. Zardari stressed that his government was doing all it could to help in the investigation, and complained that doubts about its efforts were unhelpful. "We are investigating, and the Indians say they are investigating, but to say that we could come up with proof before they can would be asking...
...Pakistani troops were amassed on the volatile border . Level-headed diplomacy resulted in a de-escalation of this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross the border with a simple identification card. Neogtiations regarding three new trade routes, which promised to bring millions of dollars in commerce to each country, looked extremely promising in the days just before...
...Pakistan is where bin Laden now lives, if he lives. The Bush Administration chose to coddle Pakistan's military leadership, which promised to help in the fight against al-Qaeda - but it hasn't helped much, although there are signs that the fragile new government of President Asif Ali Zardari may be more cooperative. Still, the Pakistani intelligence service helped create the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups - including the terrorists who attacked Mumbai - as a way of keeping India at bay, and Pakistan continues to protect the Afghan Taliban in Quetta. In his initial statements, Obama has seemed more...
...Pakistan is where bin Laden now lives, if he lives. The Bush Administration chose to coddle Pakistan's military leadership, which promised to help in the fight against al-Qaeda - but it hasn't helped much, although there are signs that the fragile new government of President Asif Ali Zardari may be more cooperative. Still, the Pakistani intelligence service helped create the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups - including the terrorists who attacked Mumbai - as a way of keeping India at bay, and Pakistan continues to protect the Afghan Taliban in Quetta. In his initial statements, Obama has seemed more...