Power struggle threatens Pakistan’s leader

Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders are tangling in a series of political confrontations that could lead to a constitutional crisis or worse after the New Year, officials in both Islamabad and Washington tell NBC News.

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Obama to meet with Afghan, Pakistan leaders

The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Wednesday with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss their troubled region.

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Pakistan's Zardari marked by corruption, tragedy

The likely next president of unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan following Saturday's election is a horse-loving aristocrat who has spent more years in prison than in politics — a novice leader lifted to prominence by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her murder.

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Swiss drop charges against Bhutto's widower

The Geneva prosecutor said Monday he has dropped money laundering charges against Asif Ali Zardari, widower of the late Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and favorite to become the country's next president.

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Bhutto's husband cleared of smuggling artifacts

A lawyer says a Pakistani court has cleared the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of charges of smuggling artifacts.

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Court Acquits Zardari in Murder Case

A prosecutor says a Pakistani court has acquitted the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in the murder of a retired judge.

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Court Dismisses Charge Vs Bhutto Widower

A court on Friday quashed the last outstanding graft charge in Pakistan against the husband of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said.

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Bhutto Widower's Graft Charge Quashed

Lawyers say a court has quashed another graft charge against Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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Court Drops Cases Against Bhutto Widower

A court on Wednesday quashed corruption cases against the husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a lawyer said, a move that could ease tensions between Pakistan's U.S.-allied president and the winning party in last month's elections.

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By Kamran Shafi Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009

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When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

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The former CJ of Pakistan while accomodating ZardariS to become the Head of the State? Should have abolished Graduate and Post Graduate studies so that the people should stop reasoning.In our next elections if they are held in time only 8th grade drop-outs as candidates will be …

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Steps by the United States to vastly expand its aid to Pakistan, as well as the footprint of its embassy and private security contractors here, are aggravating an already volatile anti-American mood as Washington pushes for greater action by the government …

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Is India a friend? By Inayatullah | Published: September 26, 2009

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ISLAMABAD: Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that military aid provided by the US to Pakistan for the war against terror during his tenure had been used to strengthen defences against India, the first such admission by any top Pakistani leader

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Islamabad: Close associates of the stalwarts of lawyers' movement and anti-PPP right wing activists are reportedly prominent among the nominees for the vacant posts of judges at the Lahore High Court.

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Ah ''The Prince" must not allow others to dictate the laws to him? Otherwise he will lose control over the nobles and ministers. Did he not reinstall the CJ and spoke of Daniel? Less his judgement was marred by his allies.

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The semi-autonomous Northern tribal areas where many militant groups (like the Taliban and Al Qaeda) have found refuge are to be reformed to allow for better integration with the main Pakistan body. The current political system or laws were inherited by British colonialists.

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The US continues to be in denial as evident from the recent statement of Richard Holbrooke where he said the evidence Pakistan has produced on India's links to terrorism in Balochistan is not credible.

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Baluch to observe black day in DC

An internationally known fighter against the exploitation of Barrick Gold will join Baluch freedom lovers in Washington DC to expose the injustices perpetrated against Baluchistan since its forced annexation by Pakistan more than 61 years ago.

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Pakistan's president has admitted his country created terrorist groups to help achieve its foreign policy goals. Asif Zardari told a meeting of former senior civil servants in Islamabad, it was time to be honest about their deployment.

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There could be a major spike in U.S. deaths and injuries in Afghanistan next year, the top U.S. military commander revealed at the National Press Club in Washington DC.

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In a rare admission, President Asif Ali Zardari conceded that Pakistan -- without naming the country's omnipotent military -- created terrorists for a number of short-term goals.

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A Baluchistan analyst based in Moscow, Hafeez Baluch, argues that Taliban is Islamabad's own creation and the Pakistani defence establishment is using them to get financial assistance from the West.

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Grand daughter and rightful heir to the Bhutto throne, writer and poetess Fatima Bhutto, says President Barack Obama's Af-Pak policies leads to bolstering the Taliban support base in Pakistan. The Bhutto dynasty has seen two premiers and four deaths in three and half decades.

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The U.N. estimates the insurgency reaps $300 million to $400 million a year from the drug trade, and the U.S. believes that amounts to half to three-quarters of its total revenues.

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Pakistan's all out attempt to con the world into giving it aid. LONDON: Pakistan's President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari has said there is a possibility that its nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of Taliban if democracy 'fails' in his country and the world doesn't help.

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This is the time for Islamabad to exploit Washington's desperation. SecDef Robert Gates is pleading Asia to support America's failed Afghan project, while his colleague the U.S. Treasury Secretary is begging China to continue financing the U.S. government.

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Just as President Obama arrived in the Middle East, the Al Jazeera television news broadcast an audiotape on Wednesday that it said was Osama bin Laden condemning Mr. Obama for planting new seeds of "hatred and vengeance toward Americans." More Articles

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LAHORE: Gunmen detonated a car bomb near police and intelligence agency offices on Lahore's Fatima Jinnah road Wednesday, killing 23 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.

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The deeper Pakistan has dug itself into a jihadist dungeon over the past decade and more, the more the United States has gotten involved in that country, including in propping up its tottering economy through generous bilateral and international aid, macro-managing Pakistani poli …

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PESHAWAR: A devastating car bomb ripped through a cinema and some vehicles on the busy Cinema Road at Khyber Bazaar killing at least seven persons and injuring 75 others Friday evening.

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President Asif Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently visited President Obama in Washington. Their conversations focused on the threat the Taliban pose to the good order of their countries.

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Karzai and Zardari may have been taking the Americans for a ride in the same ramshackle vehicle of promises that had taken the Bush administration nowhere for years.

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