Several members of the opposition PML-Q, which is aligned with Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf, have publicly urged the former military strongman to step down and some have even said they will vote in favour of an impeachment motion against him.
The Pakistani president in an interview with NBC disagreed that the pardon was a complete 'whitewash'.
Rawalpindi's anti-terrorism court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, Geo TV reported.
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's lawyers were not allowed to meet him on Monday at his residence, which has been declared a sub-jail, despite an order issued by the Supreme Court.
'We have decided that confidence-building measures as well as all disputes, including the dispute of Jammu and Kashmir, need to be addressed,' he said.
Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran met President Musharraf and briefed him on the outcome of the talks.
He urged subversive elements in Balochistan to abandon their path and instead help in the development and progress of the province.
Musharraf, Aziz give Dawood reception a miss
'During my tenure as PM, two Indian prime ministers visited Pakistan. Modi sahab and Vajpayee sahab had come to Lahore'
Former President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to defend himself in Pakistani courts in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling declaring the emergency imposed by him in 2007 as unconstitutional.
The session of the 342-member Assembly commenced on Monday evening as the Paksitan People's Party-led coalition said it has drawn up an "unimpeachable" chargesheet listing allegations of misconduct, violation of Constitution and financial irregularities against Musharraf, who turned 65 on Monday.
"Pakistan seeks peaceful resolution of all issues with India, including the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute. Success in this endeavour would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in South Asia."
Vowing not to bow to the dictates of the main Islamist alliance, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the successful amendments to the controversial Islamic law on rape would help defeat the extremists.
The state run Pakistan Television reported that Musharraf spoke to Inzamamam, coach Bob Woolmer and the team manager Salim Altaf and congratulated the team.
Heaping scorn at a audio tape purported to be from Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri seeking the overthrow of his government, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Friday asserted he would "eliminate" all Al Qaeda terrorists.
Omar Sheikh's lawyer Rai Bashir said he might use extracts from the book to seek a fresh hearing and trial for his client, a British citizen of Pakistani origin.
Asked if he would agree to a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, Zardari told a magazine: "It's too early and our wounds are too deep to think of having any working relationship with the ruling party or President Pervez Musharraf."
Shahzain Bugti, leader of the Balauch Jamhoori Watan party, has charged the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government at the centre of "inaction" in not registering cases against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for allegedly murdering his grandfather Nawab Akbar Bugti.
Mulla Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military commander spoke to a Pakistani newspaper.
Pakistan's extremist Islamic leaders would gain power if President Pervez Musharraf was assassinated or replaced, a top US intelligence official told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
As Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf defied summons and failed to show up before the country's highest court for the second day on Thursday, Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhary has observed that the ex-President can be tried for "high treason" by Parliament.
Pressing for Musharraf's ouster, Mohammad Hasham Babar, the secretary general of the party which is a part of the Pakistan People's Party-led ruling coalition, said the president has destroyed almost all the institutions in the country, including the judiciary, during his dictatorship. He has to go out. We do not want him. Whether he goes out of the country or he is prosecuted in the country, there are only two options," Babar told PTI in Delhi.
Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has turned against embattled President Pervez Musharraf, who pardoned him for proliferation activities four years ago, blaming him for the various problems confronting the country that had 'gone to the dogs'. Khan, confined to his home in Islamabad for the past four years by Musharraf after he admitted to proliferating nuclear secrets, claimed he had never done anything illegal.
Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, on a self-imposed exile for more than a year, has said he plans to return home to re-enter politics and did not rule out making a bid for premiership.
Musharraf had promised that he will relinquish the army chief post by the end of 2004. Now he says he will continue.
US President George W Bush on Friday acknowleged the role of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in the ongoing war against terrorism saying Musharraf's decision to fight terror was made at "great personal risk".
The United States on Thursday said that President Pervez Musharraf has not taken its advice not to impose emergency in Pakistan. "President Musharraf oversees a sovereign nation, and we urged him not to take this step of establishing a state of emergency. He did not take our advice. We consider it a setback because it was outside of the constitution, calling that state of emergency," White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said.
Apparently eyeing the 2013 polls, Pakistan's ex-President Pervez Musharraf raised anti-India rhetoric, claiming that the United States' "nuclear policy of appeasement and strategic cooperation" with New Delhi is seen in his home country as "an act of animosity."
Say it is a 'betrayal' of the Kashmir cause.
"We are aware of the anxiety of the government. I assure you that the case will be decided next week," said Justice Javed Iqbal, the head of the 11-member bench that is hearing five petitions opposing Musharraf's candidature in the presidential poll on the ground that he had not quit the post of Army Chief. The military ruler cannot be sworn in till the apex court rules on the petitions, and this has prolonged the political uncertainty in the country.
"No impeachment or no chargesheet can stand against me... But I think this is not the time for individual bravado. This is the time for serious thought. In the interest of the country, I have decided to resign. The resignation will reach the National Assembly speaker shortly," the 65-year-old former army chief said in an emotional internationally televised address.
"President Musharraf is coming here [Delhi] on April 16 evening to watch the cricket match on April 17," External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said in Lok Sabha.
Posters of General Musharraf will be put up in cities, towns and villages across the country. PML leaders will also organise seminars and public meetings to convince the public to vote for the president.
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