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Pakistan’s Chaudhry pleads for end to corruption

Pakistan’s reinstated top judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urged lawyers on Tuesday to wipe out corruption in the judiciary amid a hero’s welcome.

Sharif vows protest will change Pakistan’s destiny

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif vowed on Wednesday to change Pakistan’s destiny as he urged the masses to defy a government clampdown and protest.

New Pakistan PM sworn in by Musharraf

Pakistan’s new prime minister was sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday as two senior United States envoys arrived for talks aimed at shoring up Islamabad’s role in…

Pakistani opposition struggle to agree poll tactics

Pakistan’s two main opposition leaders have failed to overcome key differences preventing them forging a united front ahead of general elections in January, party officials said…

Musharraf starts new term as civilian leader

Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf was sworn in as president for a second term on Thursday, but this time as a civilian and without his army uniform to protect him from pressure to end…

‘All this, for one unarmed woman’

Benazir Bhutto was going nowhere. A phalanx of riot police stood at the end of her leafy street, tapping their shields and manning a barbed-wire barricade. Armoured vehicles…