This is the second letter in which the President has been urged to step down from the post of army chief and take steps to ensure free and fair elections in the country by setting up a neutral caretaker government.
The ideas floated by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the Kashmir issue may go with him if he emerges weaker from the current political turmoil in his country, a member of the ruling party said on Friday.
'The basic issue is to create and develop understanding and we are not going to discuss solutions for substantive issues,' the Pakistani president said.
'If we don't resolve it by then, maybe we never will,' the Pakistan president told the Financial Times.
With the murder of Benazir Bhutto just days before the elections, and with the government coming up with new stories everyday about her death, the report says that Musharaff's position is probably now more insecure and he might not remain in power by the end of the year.
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in US, Joseph Biden, has said Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is "indirectly complicit" in the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in view of the kind of protection that was needed for her was never provided.
"The system will ensure that the martial law is never imposed again in the country," he said, while addressing a gathering at the Student Convention in Islamabad on Saturday.
The ruling Pakistan People's Party on Saturday unveiled a package of sweeping constitutional reforms aimed at curbing President Pervez Musharraf's powers, including those of dissolving parliament and appointing the chiefs of the armed forces. The party, however, remained mum on reinstating judges sacked by Musharraf during emergency last year, an issue that has strained ties with coalition partner Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League N, which quit the cabinet.
Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Peoples Party on Wednesday denied that former President Pervez Musharraf was given a "safe exit" after his resignation under a negotiated settlement guaranteed by "international and local" stakeholders, saying that no such deal was struck.
In a bizarre development, Pakistan presidential spokesperson Major General (retired) Rashid Qureshi on Thursday said that no mercy petition of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh is pending with President Pervez Musharraf. Sarabjit has spent 18 years on death row in Pakistan, after being convicted for his alleged involvement in four bomb attacks in Punjab province in 1990, which killed 14 people.Sarabjit's execution was deferred for 30 days by President Pervez Musharraf.
The Pakistani president also said Islamic countries should grapple with terrorism, which causes 'more loss of life within the Muslim world'.
The 20-minute evening call was the first top-level contact between the two countries since Singh was sworn in as Indian prime minister on Saturday. \n\n
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the October 6 presidential polls, formally launching his bid for another five-year term in the face of legal challenges and stiff protests by the opposition parties.
Brushing aside the demand for quitting the post of army chief, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said his uniform is like a second skin, which he cannot remove.
As Musharraf finalised his plans for re-election, a senior minister said the general will be deemed to have been elected unopposed for another term if the opposition parties did not put up any candidate against him
President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that he's negotiating with all political outfits in Pakistan, including the parties of former premiers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
Former president Pervez Musharraf, who has announced his intentions to return to Pakistan before the 2013 general elections, will formally launch his new political party and unveil its programme in London on October 1.
Musharraf and Bhutto had earlier met on July 27 in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, according to the Pakistani government.
The former prime minister also expressed apprehension of President Musharraf continuing in office and still wearing his uniform as Chief of the Armed Forces.
'Would any other nuclear power allow its sensitive installations to be inspected?' he asked.
The generals are worried about Washington's warm overtures to India and fear that soon they will be abandoned again, the magazine's international editor Fareed Zakaria said in the article.
The former prime minister said Vajpayee has indicated that his upcoming visit to Islamabad will include meetings with "everyone", including Musharraf.
Pak Army officers write to Musharraf on the sacking of CJ issue.
Khan was imprisoned by the government last week under terrorism charges after trying to lead a student protest in Lahore.
"Musharraf has got a situation at home where there is a certain amount of sympathy in some places for, if not Al Qaeda, then certainly for the people who are more inclined to Islam."
Miandad invites Musharraf, PM Aziz to son's wedding reception
The European Union should adopt a "balanced" approach on the Kashmir issue and play an "active" role in dispute resolution between India and Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday.
'To belittle the general, to chastise him like an errant school boy -- that was the last thing on Cheney's mind.'
An independent panel appointed by the United Nations has criticised the Pervez Musharraf-led government in Pakistan for failing to protect former premier Benazir Bhutto.Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide attack after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.The Commission was headed by Chilean UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz and included former Indonesian attorney general Marzuki Darusman and Ireland's former deputy police commissioner Peter Fitzgerald.
Musharraf claims the CIA made a secret payment to Pakistan for surrender of al Qaeda agents.
The report is an embarrassment to the Bush Administration, which views Musharraf as its best bet in the region against terrorism and proliferation of WMD.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he was encouraged to join the Army by his mother as he was not good at academics and that he often felt "lonely" during his eight-year reign. Musharraf, who has maintained his iron grip on Pakistan since 1999 after deposing the then premier Nawaz Sharif in a bloodless coup, said he was not very good at studies unlike his brothers and therefore his mother Zarreen Begum "the most important person in his life" encouraged him to
Pakistan's Interior Ministry has given its approval for the process of obtaining a Red Corner Notice from Interpol for the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
"US has continued to be concerned with the violence in Kashmir and Powell spoke about it on Thursday to Musharraf," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
The potential for miscalculation between India and Pakistan remains high, Director of the US Defence Intelligence Agency, Vice-Admiral Lowell E Jacoby, said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has promised to lift the emergency on December 15, a day earlier than he had previously announced, and claimed the upcoming general elections in the country would be "absolutely" free and fair.
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