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		<title>Sectarian strife in Pakistan hurts its ties with China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, riots between Sunni and Shia groups in north-east Pakistan claimed at least 20 lives and left 50 others injured, prompting the government to deploy troops and to impose a curfew in the volatile areas. That curfew has since been lifted in the area, which borders western China. But growing sectarian discord in Gilgit-Baltistan...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/05/11/sectarian-strife-in-pakistan-hurts-its-ties-with-china/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Javed back to top PSM post</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; The Pakistan government has turned to a retired major general, Muhammad Javed, to revive the failing state-owned Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) as chief executive, four years after Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani turfed him out as head of PSM when the country&#8217;s only integrated steel manufacturing plant was a successful concern. The mill,...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/05/03/javed-back-to-top-psm-post/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Imran Khan in Balochistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 08:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADDRESSING his first public gathering in Quetta in April, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan condemned the security operation in the province and vowed to find a political solution to the conflict. The province was pushed into an insurgency-like situation by the military approach taken by the establishment to resolve the conflict. Now, Baloch separatist...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/05/03/imran-khan-in-balochistan/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Gaping deficits pile loan pressure on Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh returned from talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week under growing need to obtain a new loan arrangement amid fast-widening trade and current account deficits. Crippling power shortages make it unlikely finances will improve in the foreseeable future. Pakistan&#8217;s trade gap widened 43% in the first...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/27/gaping-deficits-pile-loan-pressure-on-pakistan/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Gilani son named in drug scam</title>
		<link>http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/25/gilani-son-named-in-drug-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; The family of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, for the second time in barely a year, has become enmeshed in a corruption scandal, with son Ali Musa Gilani accused of being involved in a near-US$8 million scam involving allocation of a controlled drug, ephedrine. Musa Gilani failed to appear before a three-member Supreme...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/25/gilani-son-named-in-drug-scam/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Jailbreak in Pakistan shows Taliban in a resurgent spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in a dramatic display of strength, about 150 Taliban militants armed with automatic weapons, hand grenades and rockets stormed a prison in Bannu district of Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It was the start of the spring offensive. The subsequent escape of about 400 prisoners points to the growing strength and rapid reorganisation of...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/23/jailbreak-in-pakistan-shows-taliban-in-a-resurgent-spring/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Vying for energy resources</title>
		<link>http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/09/vying-for-energy-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE US and China, which are currently in a state not unlike the Cold War, may end up in a confrontation over the energy resources of the Caspian Sea area and Central Asia. Worryingly for some, this confrontation could take place in the land of the Baloch comprised of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, Iran’s...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/04/09/vying-for-energy-resources/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Zardari gives nod to bank &#8216;autonomy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; President Asif Ali Zardari at the weekend approved the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill, 2012, which empowers the central bank to control government borrowing. The bill has strengthened the central bank&#8217;s ability to formulate and implement monetary policy with a degree of autonomy. Under the bill, government borrowing will be brought to...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/03/14/zardari-gives-nod-to-bank-autonomy/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s borrowing soars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syed Fazl-e-Haider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; Borrowing by the Pakistan government from the country&#8217;s banking system this fiscal year has been so heavy that it broke the full fiscal year record, set in June last year, in only seven and half months. The government borrowed 674 billion rupees (US$7.4 billion) from domestic banks in the period from last July...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/03/06/pakistans-borrowing-soars/">&#187;</a>
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		<title>Iran offers financial aid to build Pakistan pipeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI &#8211; Iran has agreed to provide US$250 million to help Pakistan build its end of a gas pipeline between the two countries after Pakistani institutions, including Oil and Gas Development Co Ltd (OGDCL) and National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), refused to provide funds for the project because of US sanctions imposed against Iran at...<a href="http://www.syedfazlehaider.com/2012/03/02/iran-offers-financial-aid-to-build-pakistan-pipeline/">&#187;</a>
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