The increasingly strained relations between the army and civilian leadership could lead to a coup.
The United States has vacated a Pakistani air base following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over November’s Nato air strikes.
A prominent Pakistani Cabinet minister says unnamed ‘people’ would foil any attempt to dislodge the president through a coup.
Pakistan’s president said on Tuesday accusations that his nation extends a safe haven to extremists were "baseless".
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday his visit to India to watch the Cricket World Cup semifinal was in the "national interest".
Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as heavy rain was expected to intensify suffering.
Suspected Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani checkpost near the US consulate in Peshawar on Monday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 38.
Pakistan’s government came under pressure on Saturday to bring stability to the country after one of the bloodiest bombings in more than two years.
Pakistan’s opposition on Thursday called on President Zardari to resign after a court threw out an amnesty protecting him from corruption charges.
Warplanes struck a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday in retaliation for the killing of an anti-Taliban cleric.
Barack Obama will urge the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to put aside mistrust and join Washington in an alliance against Islamic extremists.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday ruled out the possibility of his country’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban.
The Taliban in Pakistan have moved to within 100km of Islamabad, officials say, sparking global concern.
Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting US envoy.
Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.
Pakistan’s reinstated top judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urged lawyers on Tuesday to wipe out corruption in the judiciary amid a hero’s welcome.
President Asif Ali Zardari called for national reconciliation in a Pakistan Day message on Monday, as he sought to mend fences with the opposition.
Islamic courts have started work in Pakistan’s Swat valley under a controversial deal that the government hopes will end two years of bitter fighting.
Pakistan’s government agreed on Monday to reinstate Iftikhar Chaudhry as chief justice to defuse a political crisis and end a street agitation.
Pakistan police erected a tight cordon on Saturday to block lawyers and activists who defied a ban on protests.
