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Lahore, Nov 8: Senior PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif, who had walked out of the Yousuf Raza-led federal cabinet a few months back citing differences on various issues, is scheduled to break bread tonight with the country’s President and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

United Nations, Nov 6: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will represent his country in an inter-faith conference to be held at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York on November 12.

He would be among 30 world leaders, including Saudi King Abdullah, US President George W Bush and US President-elect Barack Obama at the inter-faith conference, the Daily Times quoted a UN spokesman as saying.

Islamabad - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will request the Saudi leadership to defer payments on oil exports for the next two years to help his country avert a balance of payment crisis when he arrives in the kingdom on an official visit on Tuesday, his spokesman said.

"The president will discuss several regional and bilateral issues, including means to strengthen the bilateral relations and ways to tackle the menace of terrorism and extremism when he meets King Abdullah," spokesman Farhatullah Babar said.

Islamabad, Nov 3 : President Asif Ali Zardari has termed drone attacks on Pakistani territory as counter-productive, and said on Monday that these raids should be stopped and focus should be more on enhanced coordination and intelligence sharing.

“Continuing drone attacks on our territory, which result in loss of precious lives and property, are counterproductive and difficult to explain by a democratically elected government. It is creating a credibility gap”, he said.

Islamabad, Oct 26 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that he sees no judicial crisis in the country except a few deposed judges issuing political statements, and gave a veiled warning of bringing them into politics if they did not stop doing so.

Zardari said he sees no judicial crisis and anything of the sort. But he did advise the deposed judges, the number of which he counted as only four including the big gun, not to throw a political challenge to the government, The News reported.