Bhutto says she is the only alternative in the country between the Musharraf dictatorship and the religious fundamentalists.
"Dr Khan could not have done this on his own. There are certainly other people involved," she said.
Authorities had written letters to Swiss Attorney General and other officials to reopen the corruption cases that were closed under a controversial graft amnesty issued by ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, National Accountability Bureau Chairman Naveed Ahsan's lawyer Abid Zubairi informed a seven-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
Ahead of the meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pakistan has assured Pakistan occupied Kashmir leaders that it would not change its stance on the Kashmir issue.\n
'We are now engaged in a serious dialogue to see what kind of things we might be able to do on the civilian nuclear side,' says US Charges de affairs Robert O Blake.
No former army general would be appointed at the head of a caretaker government in Pakistan, media reports said. It has also been decided that the federal and provincial cabinets would not comprise armed forces personnel and intelligence agencies have been issued orders not to interfere in the upcoming general elections, The News quoted highly placed sources as saying.
Much is being made of Kayani's attempt to surround himself with his own men. That is only partially true and in many ways legitimate too. However, it does not seem that he would have unnecessarily pushed Lt-Gen Taj out of the ISI in less than a year of the latter's having taken charge of the agency if internal and external actors had not begun to cast doubts over the agency's internal and external conduct
Journalists all over the country marched with black flags to protest against the tear-gas and baton charge on media persons covering the protests before the Election Commission on Saturday during the scrutiny of nominations for presidential poll.
Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that nearly 500 terror convicts will be hanged to death within the next two to three weeks.
Musharraf admitted that the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency has been involved in the political arena for the past five decades.
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf onannounced his much-anticipated return to mainstream politics with an apology for the 'political mistakes' of the last years of his regime and promised to start his career with a 'clean slate.'
In a big blow to Musharraf, Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth despite last-minute assurances from the dictator that he would soon lift the state of emergency.
The prime minister is also scheduled to hold his first meeting with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during his stay in New York.
Pakistan military has appointed Lt Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat as the new chief of the Strategic Plans Division, which manages and secures the country's nuclear arsenal.
Lt Gen Haroon Aslam of the Pakistan Army on Thursday resigned a day after he was superseded by his two juniors who were made the new army chief and the chairman joint chief of staff committee.
'Instead of crying foul, we should all show magnanimity,' Musharraf said during a programme on state-run television channel on Monday.
'The resolve has to be there, the will has to be there. Above all, our top leadership has to adopt a statesman-like approach' says Pakistan's Interior Minister Faisal Hayat.
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto is eyeing several key posts in the proposed interim set up to conduct general elections in the country.
Successive Indian governments never bothered about Indian prisoners of war, and never responded about their status in Pakistani jails, Nilanjana Ghosh, daughter of Major A K Ghosh, who is suspected to be in a Pakistani jail since the 1971 Indo-Pak War, said in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Glimpses into the life of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, who at 31, is Pakistan's youngest first lady.
'On the Kashmir and Pakistan question, it is startling that Vajpayee and Advani did more than anybody in Indian history.'
The clerics were told that if they did not stop, cases would be registered against them and they would be imprisoned.
PEMRA will only allow airtime to Indian content if India allows airtime to Pakistani content.
With the possibility of President Pervez Musharraf seeking re-election, a senior Pakistani minister has said the next president would be elected by the existing Parliament and Provincial Assemblies in September-October 2007.
Pakistan's main opposition parties Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan People's Party on Tuesday jointly mustered a simple majority in the new Parliament, local TVchannels said.
The United States has ruled out a military coup in Pakistan in the wake of the political chaos saying Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani is a staunch supporter of democracy and doesn't want to take over like his predecessor Pervez Musharraf did in 1999.
The military establishment is in no mood to forgive or forget Imran's anti-military utterances, observes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RAW, India's external intelligence agency.
A hectic schedule awaits Singh who leaves on the eight-day trip on September 19 with a stopover at London where he will meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Mirwaiz extended an open invitation to all pro-freedom groups to join the Hurriyat Conference to strengthen it.
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha has asked Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to dismantle terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
A petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on money laundering charges has been admitted by the Lahore High Court for hearing, 23 years after it was filed.
'The UPA government will take every step to resolve the Kashmir issue through dialogue and reconciliation,' she said.
The former prime minister said President Musharraf has been doling out concessions to India.
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