Punjab, where Mr Sarwar was born before moving to Britain, is Pakistan's wealthiest and most powerful province.
KARACHI, Pakistan — At the start of last week I was in the nation's capital, Islamabad, which adjoins the country's most populous and most powerful province, Punjab.
Membership in certain gangs would be outlawed for five years under the latest proposal, which has won support in Ontario, Canada's most powerful province, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan, two Western provinces with gang problems.
He was now the chief minister of Punjab, and Benazir knew that without the support of Pakistan's most populous and powerful province she would not be able to rule.
William had cleared the way for his policies but at the price of arousing deep fears among the Dutch people most of all in the powerful province of Holland of military dictatorship, monarchical rule, and renewed involvement of the country in war.
Tutul Xiu was the ruler of the most powerful province of northern Yucatán and his submission to Spain and conversion to Christianity had repercussions throughout the peninsula, and encouraged the lords of the western provinces of the peninsula to accept Spanish rule.
The son of the late president, Bongbong Marcos, placed second in the contested vice presidential election and is popular with many Filipinos, as is his sister Imee Marcos, the governor of Ilocos Norte, a powerful province in the northern end of the Luzon.
Its maturation signals that the slowing of China's economy is not a cyclical blip but a structural downshift.When growth flagged in powerful coastal provinces a few years ago, the poorer interior picked up the slack.
It is incomplete: the Radicals, powerful in several provinces, had no wish to share top billing with the Frepaso newcomers.
