New Pakistani PM elected despite boycott
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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.
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Banker-turned-politician Shaukat Aziz, a loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf, Saturday took over as Pakistan&#39;s prime minister and won the vote of confidence in the National Assembly with the entire Opposition boycotting the proceedings, charging that
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday greeted his new Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz and reaffirmed his government&#39;s commitment to strengthening ties with Islamabad.
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Pakistan's new prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, a technocrat and trusted ally of military leader President Pervez Musharraf, was sworn on Saturday.
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Pakistan's parliament elected Shaukat Aziz, the former finance minister and a close ally of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as prime minister on Friday. The opposition boycotted the vote.
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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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Three weeks after surviving an assassination attempt, Pakistan&#39;s finance minister, Shaukat Aziz, confirmed his place as the country&#39;s next prime minister, after coasting to victory in a byelection.
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Pakistan&#39;s parliament is to elect a new prime minister today in a vote expected to be won easily by military-backed former finance minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf withdraws new media restrictions after protests and foreign criticism.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 21 -- For a few hours Thursday, Pakistan glimpsed its political future, and it looked like this: A crowd of hundreds of thousands spilling into the streets for a rollicking but peaceful welcome to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that, when replicated across the country,...
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PAKISTANâS former finance minister Shaukat Aziz was set to be sworn in as prime minister today, a day after parliament elected him as premier despite an opposition boycott of the vote.
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Counting began on Monday after an  election in Pakistan which was far less violent than feared,  although it could result in a parliament set on driving U.S.  ally President Pervez Musharraf from power.
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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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While the government hailed an end to  emergency rule, many Pakistani politicians, voters and the  media said on Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf remained  entrenched in power with elections next month skewed in his  favor.
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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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Pakistan&#39;s parliament elected Shaukat Aziz as its new Prime Minister yesterday. President General Pervez Musharraf named Mr Aziz as his choice as head of government, after his relationship
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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.