(n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few nights before the evacuation, I drank hot chocolate topped with cream with a Libyan photographer friend at a city-centre cafe nicknamed The Clock after a nearby handsome clock tower, presented to the city long ago by an Ottoman pasha.
(2) The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(3) Every third shop on Fevzi Pasha Boulevard, a wide shopping street that led to the smugglers’ quarter, was happy to oblige.
(4) In his affidavit, Pasha said that he had "seen enough corroborative material" to "prove" the allegations against the Washington ambassador, who was forced to resign over the issue.
(5) In recent months Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, have drawn closer to Karzai, their former rival, with a view to negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban.
(6) 7.41pm GMT Scores: 7,7,8,8 - a much-better-than-usual 30 from Rachel and Pasha.
(7) The CIA deputy director Michael Morell negotiated access to the Abbottabad during meetings in Islambad with the ISI chief, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the Washington Post reported.
(8) The El Materi household includes a large tiger, named Pasha, living in a cage, which consumes four chickens a day.
(9) Last December the CIA station chief was forced to quit Pakistan after being publicly identified (US officials blamed an ISI leak); while Pakistani spies were angered that their chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a US lawsuit brought in a New York court by victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(10) The head of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, had told the court in writing that he met Ijaz and had "seen enough corroborative material to prove his version of the incident".
(11) In their court written testimonies, Kayani and Pasha had pressed the judges to investigate the allegations against the former US envoy, Husain Haqqani, while the government had asked the court to drop the case and leave it to an investigation by a parliamentary committee.
(12) Last week the CIA chief, Leon Panetta, visited Islamabad to meet the Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), General Shuja Pasha.
(13) I'm concerned about how close Pasha will be able to get.
(14) Kayani and the head of the military's spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, pressed the supreme court in affidavits to investigate the allegations against Haqqani that could lead to treason charges.
(15) Which means Rachel and Pasha are in the bottom two.
(16) In parliament, angry politicians fired questions at top generals; one even complained to the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, that he had been tortured by intelligence men under the regime of President Pervez Musharraf.
(17) And the ISI chief Pasha is hiring lawyers in New York to defend him against similar accusations in a lawsuit.
(18) Ijaz was a ferocious critic of Pakistan's military but then he met its spymaster, Pasha, in October in London where he handed over his evidence about the memo to him.
(19) Chelsee is paired with new boy Pasha - he sweeps her of her feet, then we're treated to a rather unfortunate camera angle as she bounces up the stairs.
(20) The evidence of General Pasha , the former chief of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, is particularly interesting, with its account of Bin Laden's travels in Pakistan following the war on Afghanistan, and explanation of how one of his aides used his Pakistani identity card to buy a plot of land not far from the Pakistan military academy.