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The New Nation (Free subscription) | yesterday
UNB, Dhaka The United States government is going to significantly increase fund and assistance for democracy and governance in Bangladesh in the year 2009. This was conveyed to the Congress by US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard A Boucher while appearing before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs sub-committee on South Asia on Wednesday, according...
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The New Nation (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
UNB, Dhaka US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher Thursday said Washington wants to see the general elections completed by the end of this year to allow democratically elected government to govern Bangladesh next year. "We look forward to the statement of the caretaker government that will reassure the people that the process (of election) is underway...
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of India as we express our sympathy,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher said Wednesday.
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Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Maulana Mengal said the Pakistani rulers have proved to be slaves of the United States by allowing Richard Boucher to decide the Pakistani nation's fate. He said the Jamaat-e-Islami is active to provide honest leadership to the country. Source: Roznama Jasarat, Pakistan, May 13, 2008 .
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NDTV (Free subscription) | yesterday
... lots of it, and mostly on guns,'' he said on Wednesday.Ackerman told Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher at a subcommittee hearing that if the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan ''weren't so dire and our need for success not so absolute, I'd suggest that additional appropriations to security forces in either nation was throwing good money after bad.'' Boucher testified...
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Department of State (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Assistant Secretary Boucher (May 14): "The United States has a consistent policy basis throughout the region: promoting democratic stability as the base from which to counter extremism and terrorism. ...While these efforts manifest themselves in different ways through different programs in different countries, what we pursue is not haphazard and it is not coincidence.
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Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Islamabad , May 12 (ANI): The US embassy in Islamabad has said that the restoration of judges issue was to be resolved by the Pakistan government only and that the US administration had nothing to with it. And, thats why US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher didnt discuss the issue with PPP Co-Chairman [...]
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... Maulana Mengal said the Pakistani rulers have proved to be slaves of the United States by allowing Richard Boucher to decide the Pakistani nations fate. He said the Jamaat-e-Islami is active to provide honest leadership to the country. Source: Roznama Jasarat, Pakistan, May 13, 2008
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
US assistant secretary of state for south Asia Richard Boucher met PML-N chief Sharif in London for almost two hours to discuss the political situation in Pakistan.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Washington intervened in Pakistan's political crisis yesterday, delivering a strong message of concern over political infighting as the country's coalition government headed to the brink of collapse.Richard Boucher, U.S. assistant secretary of state, met in London with Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, the heads of Pakistan's two main governing parties, to try to agree on a formula for the...
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Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Boucher to meet with Nawaz, Zardari on judges issue ISLAMABAD: The US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher is arriving in London to hold meeting with PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N Qauid Nawaz Sharif about judges restoration issue, sources said. The US direct intervention in judge’s issue continued and it decided to [...]
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NDTV (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Despite a last-minute US mediation, the leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition failed to reach a deal on restoring deposed judges on Sunday, increasing the probability that ministers belonging to former premier Nawaz Sharif's party might quit the cabinet on Monday.Ahead of Monday's deadline set by PML-N to reinstate the judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... to reinstate the judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher met PML-N chief Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari here separately in a last attempt to bridge their differences on the vexed issue. However, Sharif stuck to his gun that they were committed to restoration of the sacked judges by May 12. Boucher was on his...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... office. Nawaz Sharif and Zardari also met separately Sunday with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, who was visiting London. Elizabeth Colton, spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, confirmed the meetings. She did not reveal what the meetings entailed but said reports that Boucher was there to "mediate" on the judges issue were unfounded. "The restoration...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... his controversial re-election. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher Sunday met former premier Nawaz Sharif in London, where the alliance partners had been holding inconclusive talks on the course to be followed for the return of the judges, including chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The meeting between Boucher and Sharif took place...
