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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (pur-VEHZ' moo-SHAH'-ruhv) says al-Qaida needs to be eliminated from the country by force, but dealing with the Taliban requires a military, political and socio-economic approach.
Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday effectively ruled out bringing treason charges against the country's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf.
Police say if Pakistan's former president returns to the country, he could be arrested for ordering the arrest of judges while he was in power.
An independent Pakistani human rights commission said Tuesday that rioting that killed eight Christians last week was not spontaneous but planned by the attackers, some of whom belong to an al-Qaida-linked group.
Police say a bomb has ripped through the parking area at a court in northwest Pakistan, killing two men guarding a Shiite Muslim lawyer and wounding four people.
Pakistan's top court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf to explain his 2007 firing of several dozen independent-minded judges. Wednesday's court notice allows Musharraf to send a lawyer in his place.
Dozens of suspected militants fired rockets early Saturday at a transport terminal in northwest Pakistan that is used to ship supplies to NATO troops based in Afghanistan, police said.
Pakistan's Supreme Court chief justice retired Saturday, opening the way for the restoration of a judge ousted by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and championed by opponents of the current pro-Western government.
Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated three judges ousted by Pervez Musharraf, cementing political divisions in the country a day before it elects a new president.
Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency.
Fighter jets bombed Taliban hide-outs in Pakistan's troubled northwest while troops pushed into militant territory on the ground, killing at least 40 insurgents in a 24-hour siege, the army said Saturday.
Ousted from Pakistan's presidency, Pervez Musharraf has been unwinding with friends and admirers and on the tennis court. He's building a roomy farmhouse on the edge of the capital.
Pakistan's army chief made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday for border security talks with NATO and Afghan commanders, just a day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation.
Running for president, George W. Bush couldn't name the new leader of Pakistan. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, Pervez Musharraf became a crucial but ultimately frustrating ally in the war against Islamic extremists.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation could allow the United States to build stronger relations with a fledgling democratic government and embrace what many American lawmakers and Pakistani opposition forces have long urged by moving away from a narrow focus on a single, strong military leader.
Pervez Musharraf's departure from the presidency is unlikely to have a significant impact on how Pakistan's nuclear weapons are controlled.
The U.S.-backed Afghan government welcomed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday, saying he "was not someone good for Afghanistan" and his departure will have a positive effect on the region.
President Bush has expressed solidarity with Pakistan, which has been wracked by political turmoil and suicide bombings that killed dozens of people.
Pervez Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant nation into the U.S.-led war on terror — an alliance that won him plaudits in the West but fueled anger at home.
Despite the massive shifts in Pakistan's political landscape, the new government's approach to dealing with Islamic extremists likely will follow the same lines it has since Pervez Musharraf sided with the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks.
Pakistan's ruling coalition teetered on the brink of collapse as the two main partners squabbled over a successor to ousted President Pervez Musharraf.
A major opposition party on Wednesday backed Benazir Bhutto's widower to become Pakistan's president, as the power struggle following the resignation of Pervez Musharraf intensified.
Pakistan's ruling coalition took another step Sunday toward impeaching President Pervez Musharraf, finalizing the charges to be launched against the former army chief if he refuses to resign.
Key dates from Pervez Musharraf's tenure as army chief and Pakistani president.
Strong messages in Pakistan United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to meet with government officials, civic leaders, businesspeople, and even leaders of the political opposition.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Karachi bombing accused acquittedA Pakistani court has acquitted a man sentenced to death in the June 2002 Sheraton hotel bombing which killed 11 French engineers in Karachi.
Skilled commandos rescue hostages ISLAMABAD: A pre-dawn raid by a crack commando squad of the army's Special Services Group on an intelligence office building in the outer ring of the General Headquarters on Sunday brought to an end a traumatic hostage saga that had started with the storming of the army's hea …
GHQ siege over, 39 hostages rescued RAWALPINDI: In a successful 18-hour operation, the armed forces – in collaboration with Special Services Group commandos – killed four terrorists, arrested one and rescued 39 hostages at a security office outside General Headquarters (GHQ) on Sunday, ending a siege that began …
McChrystal planned to move soldiers killed in Afghan siegeInsurgents killed eight US soldiers at a remote outpost Sunday. Part of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's new strategy for Afghanistan includes moving soldiers to population centers.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Profile: Zulfiqar MehsudProfile of Zulfiqar Mehsud, aka Hakimullah/Hakumullah Mehsud. He has been announced as the new Pakistani Taliban leader by them after days of uncertainty and reported militant infighting after Beitullah Mehsud's death.
Why treason trial is not doableMusharraf's safety deal mightier than parliamentary zeal Army won't be comfortable with its ex-chief's humiliation; local and foreign underwriters including US, UK, Saudi Arabia guaranteed safe exit...
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan's lawyers above law?Watch the video in the article the title question pertains to. A bunch of lawyers surround a police officer and assault him outside a judicial court where he just gave testimony.
ANALYSIS - The faded roadmap to India-Pakistan peaceLONDON (Reuters) - India and Pakistan may have begun talking to each other again but as yet there is no clear vision on where those talks might lead.
Another Insurgency Gains in Pakistan Three local political leaders were seized from a small legal office here in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and hustled into a waiting pickup truck in front of their lawyer and neighboring shopkeepers.
Nawaz demands Musharraf�s trialThis guy has gone bonkers. Besides attacking Pervez Musharraf he has nothing to offer. Day in and day out he talks of nothing else. He forgets that he was the one who had had a tiff always with the COASs. He sacked him while he was in air that was illegal.
Armageddon in IslamabadTHE ORIGINS of today's crisis of course lie in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The modern global jihad began in the Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan's frontier lands along the one-thousand-five-hundred-mile border between the two countries.
Pakistan's Ideological BlowbackIf the bucolic Swat valley, tucked into the Himalayas less than 100 miles from the capital city of Islamabad, is a bellwether for Pakistan's war against the Pakistani Taliban,1 the war is going badly.
Body-Counts Without BodiesThe Obama Administration's policy of showering Pakistan with money and arms and ammunition even in the absence of proof of sincerity and conviction and even in the absence of progress on the ground is once again creating a worrisome impression in the Pakistani leaders that to con …
The US advice on Kashmir is lunacy If you want to sell arsenic, the kindest way to do so is to disguise it as medicine heavily coated with sugar. There is nothing particularly new about the proposal of an interim balm for the wounds of Kashmir, demilitarization on both sides of the Line of Control.
India yearns for Pakistan's MusharrafIt's a change of heart that reflects how low India-Pakistan relations have sunk: India misses Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. It would rather deal with a powerful dictatorship than a weak democracy.
Zardari does a Mush on ObamaIn January 2002, Pervez Musharraf leveraged the Taliban link to get tens of billions and immunity from from US scrutiny for Pakistan; this week Zardari did a repeat on Obama
CFR.org - Networking in South AsiaAn Indo-Pakistani peace process continues to move forward two months after the deadly bombing on the "Friendship Express" train between New Delhi and Lahore.
Washingtons Misguided Pakistan PolicyPresident Obama sat down yesterday with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan to seek a way out of the existential crisis now facing those two nations.
Besieged by the Taliban, but thinking only of IndiaToday, Pakistan's President drops in on America's. There will be forced smiles and fine gifts, but stern words must also be exchanged. Pakistan's ,seems more interested in demonizing India than in defeating the Taliban.
The Back Channel Two years ago, Pervez Musharraf, who was then Pakistan's President and Army chief, summoned his most senior generals and two Foreign Ministry officials to a series of meetings at his military office in Rawalpindi.
India faces a new enemyThe country is in great danger," Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf has warned. While the ex-Army chief could not be more accurate in his perception of the state of affairs in Pakistan today, his ominous comment contains an equally serious message for India.
Can Pakistan Be Governed? And Is Asif Ali Zardari the Man to Do the Job? TO ENTER the office where Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, conducts his business, you head down a long corridor toward two wax statues of exceptionally tall soldiers, each in a long, white tunic with a glittering column of buttons.
Militant or Peace Broker? A Profile of the Swat Valley Maulana Sufi Muhammad The peace deal between the Islamabad government and local Taliban militants in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley has, once again, drawn international attention towards Maulana Sufi Muhammad, a pro-Taliban religious leader who has long fought for the implementation of shari' …
Controversial Pakistan judge back at workThe Pakistani chief justice whose ouster spurred waves of protests that led to a president's downfall returned to work Sunday, while the ruling party and opposition resolved to cooperate.
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