Pakistan's government freed former premier Benazir Bhutto from house arrest Saturday as the United States urged President Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule and set firm dates for elections.
Pakistan quickly ended house arrest for opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf came under new U.S. pressure to end a crackdown that Washington fears is hurting the fight against Islamic extremism.
General Musharraf?s sweeping crackdown and the images coming out of Pakistan over the last week have raised questions about the U.S. strategy for Pakistan.
The Bush administration has concluded it is not legally required to cut or suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan despite President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of a state of emergency and a crackdown on the opposition and independent media.
George W. Bush is hardly the first U.S. president to forgive sins against democracy by a Pakistani leader. Like his predecessors from Jimmy Carter onward, Bush has tolerated bad behavior in hopes that Pakistan might do Washington's bidding on some urgent U.S. priority -- in this case, a crackdown on al-Qaeda. But the scariest legacy of Bush's failed bargain with Gen. Pervez Musharraf isn't the ...
Canada on Friday called on the Commonwealth to press its member Pakistan to fix a date for lifting the state of emergency imposed on the country almost a week ago.
Pakistan's State of Emergency
We used to sleep nights knowing that Pakistan's pro-American generals had their fingers on the nuclear trigger. We're not sleeping so well now
Canada called on the Commonwealth on Friday to set a deadline for Pakistan to lift the state of emergency rule and hold democratic elections.
The United States has contributed to instability in Pakistan by not fully supporting President Pervez Musharraf as the best bulwark against Islamic fundamentalists, former U.N. envoy John Bolton said on Friday.