Read more Asif Ali Zardari stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/19704/asif-ali-zardari.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:01:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71007/boosted-us-presence-rankles-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan recently approved by the Senate appears to have triggered more suspicion than goodwill. Many in Pakistan, especially in the military, object that the conditions tied to the aid—which include keeping the military out of politics—are an unacceptable encroachment on national...http://www.newser.com/story/71007/boosted-us-presence-rankles-pakistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 1:42:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62044/with-us-help-india-pakistan-tension-eases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRevamped leadership in India and Pakistan and some behind-the-scenes encouragement from the US could lead to negotiations over the disputed Kashmir region, the New York Times reports. But while there are shimmers of hope, the relationship is still strained. “I am happy to meet you,” India’s PM told Pakistan’s president...http://www.newser.com/story/62044/with-us-help-india-pakistan-tension-eases.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 16 Jun 2009 16:12:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60099/pakistan-high-court-lifts-ban-on-sharif.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Pakistani Supreme Court has lifted a ban on opposition leader Nawaz Sharif that prevented him from running for election, clearing the way for the popular politician to vie for a third term as prime minister. Sharif had been blocked from public office because of a criminal conviction in 2000...http://www.newser.com/story/60099/pakistan-high-court-lifts-ban-on-sharif.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 26 May 2009 6:40:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58568/cheney-im-speaking-out-to-keep-us-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDick Cheney says he’s been outspoken because the Obama administration has “moved to take down a lot of those policies we put in place to keep the nation safe for 8 years.” On CBS’ Face the Nation , Cheney denied the Bush administration was in the “torture business” and said he’d...http://www.newser.com/story/58568/cheney-im-speaking-out-to-keep-us-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 10 May 2009 10:32:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58265/obama-praises-afghan-pakistan-commitments.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama said he got the commitments he wanted today from the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to more aggressively fight militants gaining power and sowing violence inside their countries' borders. The high-stakes diplomacy had Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari meeting with officials separately and together. Looming...http://www.newser.com/story/58265/obama-praises-afghan-pakistan-commitments.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 06 May 2009 16:15:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58178/stakes-massive-ahead-of-obama-af-pak-summit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama begins two days of talks with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan today as his administration faces what may be its first foreign policy crisis: rising militancy in the Swat Valley that threatens to spread across the nuclear-armed nation. Obama and his team are expected to pressure Asif...http://www.newser.com/story/58178/stakes-massive-ahead-of-obama-af-pak-summit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 06 May 2009 6:02:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57886/taliban-uses-human-shields-in-pakistan-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's attempt to reclaim control of Taliban-seized districts—perhaps his last shot at maintaining power—ran into new terror tactics today, the Times of London reports. In the Buner district, Taliban are using 2,000 villagers as human shields, while elsewhere they are waging an aggressive...http://www.newser.com/story/57886/taliban-uses-human-shields-in-pakistan-fight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 02 May 2009 18:38:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57839/us-reaches-out-to-pakistani-opposition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration is seeking closer ties with the Pakistani president's biggest—and most bitter—rival, the New York Times reports. The US previously shunned Nawaz Sharif because of his links to Islamists, but diplomats now believe Sharif's popularity among that group could help bolster Asif Ali Zardari's embattled government...http://www.newser.com/story/57839/us-reaches-out-to-pakistani-opposition.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 02 May 2009 5:58:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57352/pakistan-president-bin-laden-may-be-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPakistan’s president suggested today that Osama bin Laden could be dead, an assertion the US strenuously objects to, the New York Daily News reports. “He may be dead. But that’s been said before,” Asif Ali Zardari said. “It’s still between fiction and fact.” Zardari offered no proof for his claim.http://www.newser.com/story/57352/pakistan-president-bin-laden-may-be-dead.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Apr 2009 14:26:32 CDT