The list of contenders for this job include Vikram S Pandit, currently Citigroup's investment banking head and a former Morgan Stanley investment banker, and Shaukat Aziz, formerly the bank's global private banking business head and most recently the prime minister of Pakistan, according to various media reports.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the October 6 presidential polls, formally launching his bid for another five-year term in the face of legal challenges and stiff protests by the opposition parties.
Aziz lamented the fact that south Asia lagged behind its neighbourhood.
Ried said the issue had already been discussed between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Pervez Musharraf when they met in New York last month on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Miandad invites Musharraf, PM Aziz to son's wedding reception
Oscar winning US actress Jolie arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday on a four-day visit to focus world attention on the plight of Afghan refugees.
"Settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations of the people of Kashmir will change the destiny of over a billion people of South Asia."
To reap the benefits following India and Pakistan governments' decision to further bilateral trade ties, a high-powered 70-member delegation of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
The state run Pakistan Television reported that Musharraf spoke to Inzamamam, coach Bob Woolmer and the team manager Salim Altaf and congratulated the team.
Singh, who arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday evening on a three-day visit met Musharraf before meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri.
This was among the agreements by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his visiting Pakistani counterpart, Shaukat Aziz.
"History is full of examples where we didn't focus too much on exit strategy. A good exit strategy is one which leaves that country, that area, peaceful, economically and politically empowered," Shaukat Aziz said.
The information ministry pressed for continuing the ban on Indian channels like Zee TV, Aaj Tak and Doordarshan
Minister of State for Information Tariq Azim said Pakistan would take action if India provides evidence connected to Mumbai blasts. It will depend very much on what proof India provided, he told BBC.
Qari Saifullah Akhtar, described as the 'Operational head of Al-Qaeda', was caught in Dubai on Friday after he was tracked down by Pakistani intelligences officials.
This will be Singh's first meeting with the Pakistan President.
Conduct fair polls or quit by July 31, the two exiled prime ministers have told Musharraf.
The US President was received by Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz when he arrived in his limousine from\nthe highly-guarded US embassy, where he reportedly rested last night along with wife Laura Bush
Aides of President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto will be holding a final round of talks in the United Arab Emirates from Tuesday to "devise a strategy for the coming general election," a media report said. The talks were earlier scheduled after Eid-ul-Fitr, but after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and PML-N president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ruled out any truck with the PPP for the polls, the meetings were urgently arranged.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz Khan, the Durga Nag Trust has asked them to allow a delegation to visit the temple, located on the banks of Krishan Ganga in Neelam valley in PoK.
According to the area-wise break up of figures, 17,638 were declared dead in PoK and 40,772 were inured midway through the relief operations.
Natwar Singh, who was here to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the G4 countries, hoped the peace process with Pakistan would continue unimpeded "unless there is a terrorist attack like the one witnessed in London."
Though the Pak govt denies it, a criminal case is pending against Advani for allegedly conspiring to kill Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
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