
Four years after he stepped down as Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf claims he's ready to head back home. ...

03:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Once upon a time, the region that is now modern day Pakistan was South Asia's prime trading hub. Be it during the time of the ...

12:58 PM, Apr 15, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, could not be given another opportunity for further hearing as he failed to appear before the court and surrender. Chaudhry made the remarks when a three-judge bench led by him resumed hearing a petitioned filed by slain former premier Bhutto's ex-protocol officer Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, who has...

08:24 PM, Apr 09, 2012

Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari will invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan by the end of this year during his meeting in New Delhi on Sunday. This was stated by Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit on the eve of Zardari's day-long visit to India during which he will hold talks with Singh at the PM's Race Course Road residence which will be followed by lunch. "President Zardari...

05:45 PM, Apr 07, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Tuesday pasted a summons at ex-President Pervez Musharraf's farmhouse that directed him to return from self-exile and appear in Supreme Court on March 22 in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, days after the government sought an Interpol Red Corner notice for his arrest. The summons, which was issued in the wake of a petition seeking the registration of a second FIR for Bhutto's December...

08:36 AM, Mar 07, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday directed authorities to paste a notice at the residence of former President Pervez Musharraf seeking his response to a petition for registering a second FIR regarding the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order during the hearing of a petition by Bhutto's former protocol officer Aslam Chaudhry, who wants a second FIR to be...

02:41 PM, Mar 05, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Ministry has written to France-based Interpol for a Red Corner Notice against former President Pervez Musharraf for his arrest and extradition to the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday. "We have sent a request to Interpol for the arrest of Pervez Musharraf," Malik told journalists during an interaction at the National Press Club. He, however, furnished no other details. The request was sent to Interpol...

10:48 PM, Mar 04, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan has approached France-based Interpol for a Red Corner notice against former President Pervez Musharraf, seeking his arrest and extradition to the country over his alleged involvement in the assassination of ex-Premier Benazir Bhutto. The Interior Ministry has forwarded the request to the Interpol Secretariat through the global police organisation's representative in Pakistan, the Dawn newspaper reported on Sunday, quoted sources. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) senior prosecutor, Chaudhry Zulfiqar...

02:49 PM, Mar 04, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will appear before Supreme Court on Monday to face contempt charges that could decide his fate and plunge the country into a fresh political turmoil over his refusal to reopen graft cases against the President. Dealing a major blow to Gilani, 59, Pakistan's apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Friday had rejected his appeal against framing of contempt charges...

08:24 AM, Feb 13, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he will resign if the Supreme Court convicts him in a contempt of court case for not acting against President Asif Ali Zardari, Geo News reported on Sunday. Speaking to an Arab news channel, Gilani also said the cases against Zardari are politically motivated and the President enjoys immunity in the country and abroad. Gilani has refused to write to the...

07:44 AM, Feb 13, 2012

Islamabad/Lahore: Insisting that his government does not want a confrontation with the judiciary, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said he will respect decisions made by the Supreme Court, which is set to charge him with contempt for failing to act on its order to reopen graft cases against the President. The Prime Minister's remarks came amid reports that the ruling PPP's top leadership has decided to contest the...

05:18 PM, Feb 03, 2012

Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated that former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested if he enters the country. ...

07:48 AM, Jan 28, 2012

Dubai: Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has deferred his plans to return home from self-exile after repeated threats by the country's leadership that the former general would be arrested upon arrival, an official of his party said on Friday. Heeding the advise of the executive committee of his party and his friends and supporters, Musharraf has decided to defer his return to his home country, the official said. All Pakistan...

01:17 AM, Jan 28, 2012

Islamabad: Pakistan's ISI chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha held a secret meeting with former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Dubai recently and "strictly advised" him not to return to the country, according to a media report. "Gen Pasha, who has remained very close to the former President, held a meeting with (Musharraf) in Dubai and advised him not to return to the country as the situation is not conducive...

06:56 PM, Jan 24, 2012

New Delhi: The Pakistan Senate on Monday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the arrest of the former President Pervez Musharraf on his return to the country. The Senate is also demanding that a case to be registered against Musharraf under article 6 of the Pakistani constitution. This even as reports emerged that Musharraf met ISI chief Lt General Shuja Pasha in Dubai. Pasha is reported to have advised Musharraf not...

06:19 AM, Jan 24, 2012