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. | Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been deported to Saudi Arabia amid high drama hours after arriving in Islamabad and ending a seven year exile.
“Nawaz Sharif is now out of Pakistan. He is going back to Saudi Arabia,” Ijaz-ul Haq, Pakistan’s religious affairs minister, said on Monday. |
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. | In a few days a road bridge will be brought online in the intersection of Darnagul Highway and Ziya Bunyadov Avenue in Baku.
Azerbaijan Road Service press secretary Punhan Mursaliyev told |
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. | Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki today defended his government’s record, saying it has made progress “in all directions” in an address at a regional security conference in Baghdad that seeks to end the bloodshed in Iraq.
Al-Maliki also urged neighboring countries to work together to stop what he called “evil” from destabilizing the region. |
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. | Sharif, who commands a loyal following in Punjab, the country’s biggest province, plans to challenge Pervez Musharraf, the current president, who toppled him from power eight years ago. |