Is Pakistan big enough for three leaders all vying for power? That power clash equation is likely to be put to the test in coming weeks as exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns on 10 September to challenge President General Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan said it had summoned a Swedish diplomat to its foreign ministry on Thursday to protest against a "blasphemous" cartoon in a Swedish newspaper depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf will resign his post as chief of army staff before parliamentary elections in the first week of January, but will run for re-election as president while still holding the army post, the president of Pakistan's ruling party and a close political ally to Musharraf said late Friday, according to The New York Times.
Pakistan is bracing for a political showdown now that exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to return to challenge Pervez Musharraf’s reelection bid.
In January 1990, heavily pregnant and with her political opponents demanding an interim government be installed while she got on with having her baby, Benazir Bhutto took decisive action. Certain her opponents would use to opportunity to oust her from power, the prime minister of Pakistan travelled incognito to hospital in Karachi and, having consulted with her doctor, underwent a Caesarean ...
Pakistan is on the edge of a critical election season with its political landscape clouded by uncertainty. Two former prime ministers are preparing to return from exile to challenge both the current military ruler and each other.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif promised to return to Pakistan next month to fight what he called a battle against dictatorship and thwart President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's bid to extend his rule.
Pakistan is facing its worst political turmoil since President Pervez Musharraf vaulted to power in a bloodless coup in 1999. The fallout from the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan has introduced al-Qa'ida and pro-Taliban elements into the lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border. A long-simmering nationalist insurgency is fighting the Pakistan army in the vast and resource-rich province of ...
Nawaz Sharif, declaring that he is determined to remove General Pervez Musharraf, has brushed aside fears that he faces jail if he returns to Pakistan. He has also set up a three-way struggle for leadership of the country that looks likely to reach a conclusion this month.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s political scene is changing so rapidly that in a matter of three days, the widespread expectation of an early announcement by President Pervez Musharraf that he would step down as army chief by month-end has faded ...