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1. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Pakistan court orders arrest of prime minister

   Posted Jan 15th 2013, 07:22pm by AFP

   ... reporters. “The sixteen include Raja Ashraf,” said Abbas, referring to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. He said Ashraf had not been referred to by name by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1128721/pakistan-court-orders-arrest-prime-minister
2. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Pakistan's PM Raja Pervez Ashraf faces arrest over corruption claims

   Posted Jan 16th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. The Supreme Court order came as protesters led by populist cleric Tahir-ul Qadri massed near parliament on the third day of a march, calling for the government's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1128849/pakistans-pm-raja-pervez-ashraf-faces-arrest-over-corruption-claims
3. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Bomb kills at least 45 in Shiite area of Karachi

   Posted Mar 04th 2013, 09:12am by AFP

   ... Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, who is in Karachi, condemned the attack and cancelled engagements to oversee the rescue effort. More than 400 Shiites were killed in sectarian attacks last year, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1175453/bomb-kills-least-45-shiite-area-karachi
4. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Clerics issue fatwa on Taliban who shot Malala Yousafzai, 14

   Posted Oct 14th 2012, 12:00am by AFP

   ... Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf visited Malala on Friday, paying tribute to her and the two other girls who were also wounded when a gunman boarded their school bus and opened fire. "It ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1060543/clerics-issue-fatwa-taliban-who-shot-malala-yousafzai-14
5. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Pakistan anti-graft board refuses to arrest PM

   Posted Jan 17th 2013, 01:46pm

   ... Pervez Ashraf in connection with alleged kickbacks in transactions involving rental power plants when he served as power minister. Fasih Bokhari, head of the National Accountability Bureau, told ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1130097/pakistan-anti-graft-board-refuses-arrest-pm
6. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

   Pakistan court 'inches' from solution to graft showdown

   Posted Oct 05th 2012, 06:24pm by Agence France-Presse in Islamabad

   ... the government until October 10 to consult Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and amend a paragraph of a still unpublished draft letter that the court had deemed objectionable and threatened fresh ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1054736/pakistan-court-inches-solution-graft-showdown
7. Is it the beginning of the end for a strongman?

   Posted Mar 24th 2007, 12:00am by Ashraf Khan

   ... Politics Muhajir Nishan-E-Imtiaz Pakistani Politicians Pervez Musharraf Ashraf Khan President Pervez Musharraf has never shown any sign of weakness since forcing his way to power in a military coup in 1999. But protests by lawyers over his removal of the country's top judge do not augur well for the strongman. Many believe this marks the beginning of the end ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/586231/it-beginning-end-strongman
8. An ambiguous role in 'war on terror'

   Posted Oct 06th 2006, 12:00am by Ashraf Khan

   ... and militants. Debate on the issue only intensified when President Pervez Musharraf told US television last Sunday that the ISI had not aided Taleban fighters in Afghanistan but that retired intelligence ...

   http://www.scmp.com/node/566559
9. Tribal warlords step up attacks on Chinese projects

   Posted Mar 16th 2006, 12:00am by Ashraf Khan

   ... a cement factory in a town of the volatile province not far from Karachi, Pakistan's largest city. An embarrassed President Pervez Musharraf told leaders in Beijing shortly after the attack ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/540643/tribal-warlords-step-attacks-chinese-projects
10. News - Asia - PAKISTAN

    Police arrest former Pakistani ruler Musharraf

    Posted Apr 19th 2013, 01:27pm

    ... News Asia Pervez Musharraf Associated Press in Islamabad Police arrested former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf overnight at his home in the capital, where he had holed up following a dramatic escape from court to avoid being detained, officials said on Friday. Musharraf fled Islamabad High Court in a speeding vehicle on Thursday morning after a judge rejected his ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1218099/police-arrest-former-pakistani-ruler-musharraf

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