Once Pakistan’s most powerful man, Pervez Musharraf has been indicted for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder.
Former coup leader returns to Pakistan, but the ex-president may have overestimated his appeal.
Pakistan’s Taliban have threatened to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile.
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/ 20 January 2012
The increasingly strained relations between the army and civilian leadership could lead to a coup.
Pakistan police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf for his 2007 detention of top judges.
Zahida Sharif has one hope as Pakistan’s reinstated top judge returns to court on Tuesday — that her missing husband will come home.
Pakistan’s reinstated top judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urged lawyers on Tuesday to wipe out corruption in the judiciary amid a hero’s welcome.
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/ 25 February 2009
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday barred opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from elected office, raising the prospect of bitter political conflict.
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/ 19 November 2008
Two politicians accused of brutal attitudes towards women have been made Cabinet ministers in Pakistan, causing outrage among human rights activists.
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/ 16 September 2008
With the army poised for a coup and the Taliban winning hearts, Zardari doesn’t stand a chance.
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of the ruling coalition on Monday, deepening a political crisis.
Pakistani troops killed 35 militants in fighting in the Swat Valley north-west of Islamabad on Saturday after the militants ambushed a patrol.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Saturday, killing at least eight policemen.
Pakistan will hold presidential elections on September 6 to pick a successor to Pervez Musharraf, who resigned this week to avoid impeachment charges.
Musharraf’s position has been in doubt since elections in February. The resignation means that the West has lost its most important ally.
Leaders of Pakistan’s coalition government set about tackling economic and security problems on Tuesday as a bomb at a hospital killed at least 23.
Two days after Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, a poll in Pakistan revealed that 75% of Pakistanis supported the takeover.
Pakistan’s beleaguered President, Pervez Musharraf, announced his resignation on Monday in the face of an impending impeachment motion.
On Monday, the two most powerful politicians in Pakistan will either be burying President Pervez Musharraf or praising him.
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is ready to resign rather than face impeachment, coalition government officials said on Friday.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will not resign, his spokesperson said, as the ruling coalition put the finishing touches to impeachment charges.
Pakistan’s national assembly will meet next week to formally set into motion the process to impeach President Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will defend himself against impeachment by the ruling coalition, aides and allies said on Friday.
Pakistan’s ruling coalition agreed on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf.
About 2 000 Islamist women gathered at the Red Mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war.
Pakistani Taliban militants murdered 22 rivals captured this week when they seized a north-western town, a government official said.
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s President, escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan on Sunday by threatening to send troops across the border.
President Pervez Musharraf faced a fresh assault on his authority on Monday when Pakistan’s lawyers launched a week of street protests.
Top Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials met on Tuesday to review their four-year-old peace process that has stalled since domestic political turmoil erupted in Pakistan last year. It is the first contact India has had with leaders of a new Pakistani civilian government.
Pakistan’s political turmoil and violence have claimed a high-profile cultural victim — a centuries-old kite-flying festival that draws thousands of visitors. The Basant festival brings a springtime buzz to eastern Pakistan and its regional capital, Lahore, and officials usually relax a ban on the pastime.
The head of the main United States spy agency has warned that al-Qaeda is training operatives who ”look Western” and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks. Central Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Hayden said the terror network has shed its operational reliance on mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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 the ”war on terror”.