Both leaders will have to spend the next few weeks convincing their domestic audiences that they have gained and not yielded to the other - a task perhaps a little easier for the recently re-elected Indian prime minister than for his Pakistani counterpart, who is politically on shakier ground.
On March 19th, six days after the schoolgirls were killed, Jordan's prime minister, Abd al-Karim Kabariti, submitted his resignation, which the king accepted with little grace, replacing him with Abd al-Salam Majali, a former prime minister who signed the 1994 treaty with Israel.
There had in fact been some American unease during the campaign when the Awami League, the party of the outgoing prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, claimed that there was little to distinguish the ideology of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the smaller Islami Oika Jote parties from that of the Taliban of Afghanistan.
But newcomers like Morteza Haji, the education minister, and Ali Sufi, the minister for co-operatives, are obscure bureaucrats, known for little save their loyalty to Mr Khatami.
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Prime Minister David Cameron made little attempt to disguise his irritation with the warnings - private and public - about overstretch which have emerged from both military and political sources over the past months.
RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas picked a little-known academic as his new prime minister on Sunday, the official government news agency reported, following the resignation of his chief rival.
In this context, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev's little noted speech to the United Nations on 28 September -- in which he enunciated a Russian policy reminiscent of the odious Brezhnev doctrine -- is particularly troublesome.
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The prime minister may have fewer political enemies, but he also has little mass support -- something likely to rankle with more powerful leaders in the Front as well as in Congress.
And Mr Havel has little love for the leader of the right-wing opposition, Vaclav Klaus, a former prime minister who might get the job back again.
"The French troops are being vivacious at Kidal airport, which was taken a little more than a day ago, " said Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French defense minister.
The aid package announced by Agriculture Minister Nick Brown will give farmers a little help, but their long-term prospects remain poor.
Cutting spending holds little appeal to the likes of Yoshiro Mori, the prime minister, who is a firm believer in traditional pork-barrel politics.
That's the thinking of U.S. and European officials who insisted on the appointment of a new finance minister for the PA. Salam Fayyad , 50, is the chain-smoking Palestinian technocrat armed with little more than a Ph.
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