Concerned by the terror attacks in Pune, Pakistan will send a two-member delegation to India to assess the security arrangements for the hockey World Cup starting on February 28 in Delhi.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf unveiled his plans for a comeback in Pakistani politics. We present excerpts from Musharraf's interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has blamed former President General Pervez Musharraf for the current chaotic scenario in the country and said that he (Musharraf) had done 'colossal damage' to the long pending Kashmir issue.
The former general blamed Pakistan's current leadership for the chaos. "Pakistan possesses extraordinary capabilities and the present leadership is responsible for country's current situation," Musharraf said.
Pakistan's Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that the Pakistan People's Party-led government was not giving any extension to Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, as he has not asked for the extension of his tenure.
Though former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has switched careers to being a touring speaker, he is still to get over his authoritarian ways.
Our strategy of retaliation with surgical strikes or the new strategy of 'cold start' remains moribund and ineffective for the enemy believes and rightly so, that we lack the will and wherewithal to implement it. Our conventional retaliation strategy lacks 'credibility' and therefore is no deterrent, says Colonel Anil A Athale.
Shrugging aside the recent reports of Pakistan illegally modifying the United States-supplied harpoon missiles to target India and former President Pervez Musharraf's revelations that he diverted the massive American military aid provided to Pakistan to fight the war on terror to the eastern border to bolster his country's defenses for a potential convention conflict with India, the US Senate passed a massive $7.5 billion economic and military largesse to Pakistan.
United States' envoy to India Timothy J Roemer on Thursday downplayed Pervez Musharraf's recent admission -- about diverting US funds, meant for fighting terrorism, against India -- claiming it was the former Pakistan President's opinion as a private citizen.In an interview with a television channel, Musharraf had recently stated that the military aid provided by the US to Pakistan, for the war against terror during his tenure, had been used to strengthen defences.
According to US intelligence sources, Kaashmiri was killed in a missile attack carried out by unmanned aircraft in South Waziristan on September 7.
Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shams-ul- Hassan has termed former President General Pervez Musharraf's statement regarding misuse of United States' military aid as a 'foolish' comment, and has said that it could have a damaging effect on the country's image.
Days after former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's statement that Islamabad had diverted United States' aid to strengthen its defence against India was splashed in the media all over, the former general has denied allegations of misuse of army equipment, saying the media has highlighted a 'non-issue.'
Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's 'unofficial asylum' in London and the unprecedented privileges being received by him has come under the scanner, as a Labour peer has objected strongly against it.
General Pervez Musharraf will meet members of Pakistan's senate and assemblies in the United Arab Emirates and the former president who was forced to quit office is weighing his options to float a political party, after the expiry of a two-year ban on him from taking part in active politics.
The Saudi government's royal treatment to Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf during his visit to Riyadh has left his opponents into total confusion, Dawn newspaper has reported.
Slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti's son Jamil Akbar Bugti has filed a petition in the Sibbi district and sessions court seeking an order to register a case against former President General Pervez Musharraf and other senior officials in connection with his father's death.
With the expiry of the two-year political ban on him, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has started consultations with his close aides to announce his comeback in the country's politics.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is not interested in dragging former president Pervez Musharraf to the court of law, but rather favours reconciliation with the former general. Zardari said the Pakistan People's Party favours reconciliation with Musharraf, and that the fate of the former army chief would be decided by the parliament. Zardari rebuffed the notion of being a 'power monger', saying he had declined several offers from the previous regime of becoming the PM.
Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh made the hoax calls to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani after last year's terror attacks on Mumbai, investigators have told Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
Former President Pervez Musharraf has no immediate plans to return to Pakistan and resume political activities, one of his close aides has said.
Claiming that his government did not support the "unconstitutional" acts of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's recent verdict on imposition of emergency in 2007, saying it will go a long way in strengthening the democratic institutions.
The Centre will amend the Ordinance on sugarcane prices if it affects the interest of farmers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday.
What has peeved the administration most is the civilian government's lack of control of its border areas and failed peace deals with extremist elements. These failed efforts by Islamabad have led to exponential growth of these jihadis. The mounting evidence of the collusion of Pakistani intelligence with the Taliban and Al Qaeda, in launching attacks against American forces in Afghanistan, is worrying the Bush administration.
Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has refused to comment on the Supreme Court's verdict declaring his November 3, 2007 actions 'extra-judicial, illegal and unconstitutional'.Musharraf, who is currently in Italy, said he would comment on the verdict only after he himself read the apex court's judgment. Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Bin Ibrahim said that his country would consider giving political asylum to Musharraf if he asks for it.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif plans to name Pakistan's new army chief weeks before Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's term ends in November to quell speculation about the issue, according to a media report on Monday.
The Pakistan People's Party-led government is considering a proposal to seek Interpol's Red Corner notice against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf, in a bid to bring him back from abroad to face treason charges, days after he called party chief and President Asif Ali Zardari 'a criminal and a fraud'. Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani had even hinted that it might not be possible to put Musharraf on trial, after main opposition PML-N stepped up demands for action against him.
The bitter relationship between Asif Ali Zardari and his predecessor Pervez Musharraf hit its nadir when the former dictator called the Pakistan President a 'criminal, fraud and third rater' during a recent interview. He added that the Pakistan army was not capable of carrying out a mutiny. "There are people with fundamentalist ideas in the army, but I don't think there is any possibility of these people getting organised and doing an uprising," he said.
"I have to come through the political process, through the process of elections. But I think it's very good - it's very good because I think I will have that legitimacy which I never had."
The Pune terror attack was only to be expected once the government announced its decision to resume official-level talks with Pakistan. That the Islamic jihadi and extremist elements in South Asia, as a whole, are opposed to any reconciliation between India and Pakistan is by now well established. The attempts on the life of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto were part of the same agenda.
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.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari finally gave in to the demands of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz late on Sunday night and decided to reinstate Chief Justice ftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.Reacting to Zardari's decision, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has called off the proposed long march to Islamabad, which had threatened to plunge Pakistan into another political crisis.
If former dictator Pervez Musharraf returns to Pakistan to participate in the country's politics, the ruling Pakistan People's Party government will put him on trial in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case as well as for illegal detentions in the Supreme Court judges case, sources aware of the 'exit deal' have revealed. In case the former dictator breached the clandestine deal, the law would take its own course and he would have to surrender himself to the courts, say sources.
The government and people of Pakistan extend their 'heartfelt condolences' to Vajpayee's family and to the government and people of India, the spokesman said.
Tehreek-e-Taliban has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on the Pakistan Army's Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Saturday, which left four of its militants and eight soldiers dead.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is on shaky grounds, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is pro-America and Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is doing well in taking military action against terrorists in his country, a top Republican Senator said on Monday.
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.
Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Ijaz of the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court issued the notices on Monday asking Musharraf and others to respond by the second week of November. The court was asked to direct the filing of an FIR against Musharraf, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former Intelligence Bureau chief Ejaz Shah and former caretaker interior minister Hamid Nawaz Khan.
Amid clamour to try him for treason, former President Pervez Musharraf who has been living outside Pakistan since mid-April, has said he will return to the country only when conditions are "pleasant".
He was once General Pervez Musharraf's blue eyed boy, receiving a cash award of Rs 100,000 in 2000 from Pakistan's then president for killing an Indian Army officer. Eighteen months later, after 9/11, Musharraf declared him a terrorist.
In a frank admission, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said he made a "mistake" by sacking Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry nearly two years back.
