A minister resigned from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's cabinet on Monday as the embattled leader sent envoys abroad to negotiate on a power-sharing pact, government officials said.
The Bush administration will push Congress in coming months to approve legislation aimed at reducing the threat of violence from "very troubled regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan" by creating new job opportunities, a top U.S. trade official said on Monday.
Pakistan has denied reports it allegedly allowed U.S. troops to operate inside its territory, calling them speculative and false.
Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf has sent representatives to London to negotiate with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on a power-sharing pact, an official and newspapers said on Monday.
Militants and soldiers exchanged fire in northwest Pakistan Monday, an official said, killing one militant and injuring three civilians and a soldier in a lawless region where U.S. authorities worry al-Qaida is regrouping.
Militants in a Pakistan tribal area release a video of kidnapped soldiers, showing one of them being beheaded.
WASHINGTON - Exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he hopes to be back in Pakistan by mid-September, despite the risk of arrest upon returning to his homeland.
On her way to Pakistan, Margaret Warner spoke with exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who intends to return to his country despite threats that President Pervez Musharraf will arrest him. Follow her reporting all this week with a behind-the-scenes podcast.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A Cabinet minister announced Monday that he was quitting over President Gen. Pervez Musharraf re-election plan, the first senior government official to abandon the military leader in the run-up to the vote.
Pakistan, a South Asian nation with nuclear capability, says it has successfully test-fired a new missile that "can carry all types of warheads."