Aziz elected as opposition boycotts vote: Premier-elect outlines ...
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ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: Amid opposition protests and boycott, the ruling coalition in the National Assembly on Friday elected former finance minister Shaukat Aziz as prime minister, who vowed to give the country a competent government.
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made in tandem with the progress on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir,&quot; Aziz told reporters on Wednesday. Ties could not be normalised overnight, he later told business leaders of the two countries.
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The Pakistani opposition parties Friday boycotted the election of the prime minister to protest against the ruling of the National Assembly speaker on the candidacy of the jailed opposition leader.
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The opposition boycott that threatened to wreck Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election appeared to be crumbling yesterday, as the leading opposition candidate said he would recognise
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Pakistan's parliament elected former finance minister Shaukat Aziz, a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf, as prime minister yesterday after the opposition boycotted the vote, saying it was undemocratic. Aziz, 55, worked 30 years as a Citibank executive before becoming finance minister when Musharraf took power in a bloodless military coup in 1999. Suave, articulate, and media-savvy, Aziz is credited ...
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Pakistan&#39;s parliament votes on Friday for a new prime minister and is expected to choose outgoing finance minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Pakistan's parliament is due to elect ex-finance minister Shaukat Aziz as prime minister in a rubber-stamp vote in the final stages of a two-month transfer of power to President Pervez Musharraf's chosen man.
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Islamabad: Pakistan&#39;s parliament is due to elect ex-finance minister Shaukat Aziz as prime minister on Friday in a rubber-stamp vote in the final stages of a two-month transfer of power to President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s chosen man.
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HYDERABAD, Pakistan  - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto took her election campaign into her heartland on Monday, telling thousands of cheering supporters that President Pervez Musharraf's allies would be defeated.
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Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was widely expected to win a fourth term on Monday in presidential and parliamentary elections marred by a boycott by an opposition party that called the vote a sham.
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Former finance minister and President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s key loyalist Shaukat Aziz took the oath of office on Saturday as the country&#39;s new prime minister, one day after his parliamentary
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National elections â already twice delayed â are scheduled for April. The interim government voted to abolish the monarchy, meeting a key demand of former Maoist rebels.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#39;s new prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, a technocrat and trusted ally of military leader President Pervez Musharraf, was sworn in on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD: Voicing unconditional support to Prime Minister-in-line Shaukat Aziz pro-government PPP has announced that its members will cast votes in favour of Shaukat Aziz in his election as Premier.
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Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif announced Thursday his party was boycotting next month's elections following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
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LAHORE, Pakistan: August 19, 2004 (PNS) - Current Federal Finance Minister, Mr. Shaukat Aziz won by-election on his way to officially becoming Prime Minister of Pakistan. As a member of ruling Muslim League and finance minister he is credited with ...
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Pakistan&#39;s Parliament has rubber-stamped the President&#39;s choice of Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, despite an opposition boycott and angry protests.