The defence minister recalled that Musharraf had retracted a similar statement made earlier following international condemnation.
Dropping hints that Pervez Musharraf's days in office may be numbered, Pakistan's ruling PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that there is "tremendous" pressure from people who want the President's ouster.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf believes that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will part ways because of several insurmountable issues. However, Musharraf's main ally, the PML-Q, holds the opposite view.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any possibility of rigging in the upcoming general elections and said his government has made "fool-proof" arrangements to put Pakistan on the path to "true democracy".
"The president is going on the last mile for diplomacy. We shall see if the other nations on the Security Council are\n\nwilling to entertain the last mile," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said.
Authorities have put in place special security arrangements in the federal capital for former President Pervez Musharraf, who received a death threat from the Taliban days before he returned to Pakistan from self-exile.
Musharraf was definitely in a position to become a real peace-maker with the help of Manmohan Singh and Benazir Bhutto in 2007 but he missed this golden chance. He missed 2007 because he created a political turmoil in Pakistan by attacking the judiciary. He also missed a chance to win the Nobel Peace Prize along with Manmohan Singh due to his self-righteousness. He has missed everything now
The president also said that he would resign as and when he felt the nation did not require him any longer.
President Pervez Musharraf had warned slain Benazir Bhutto that her life would be in danger if she did not extend him political cooperation prior to her return to Pakistan, a new book has revealed.Referring to a conversation between Bhutto and Musharraf in September 2007, which was recorded by United States intelligence agencies, Pulitzer Prize winning US journalist Ron Suskind's book The Way of the World, has disclosed the President's veiled threat to the former premier.
Musharraf said on Saturday the fact that Hurriyat leaders have not come on Indian passports and Pakistani visas is a recognition by the countries of the disputed status of Kashmir.
Will Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf meet the fate of the Shah of Iran, another "unpopular" leader that the United States tried to prop up?
Former President Pervez Musharraf has abandoned plans to return to Pakistan from self-exile in Britain after the military leadership "cold-shouldered" his demands for extra security to counter multiple threats to his life from militant outfits like Al-Qaeda and Taliban.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday asked President Pervez Musharraf to address a joint sitting of the parliament as it is mandatory for him to do so under the constitution.
The decision against imposing Emergency was taken after Musharraf met legal experts, security officials and leaders from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
The arrest came a day after the Islamabad High Court ordered the arrest of Musharraf for not cooperating with police officials investigating a case registered against him for detaining dozens of judges, including Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, during the 2007 emergency.
The Pakistani president accused India of trying to put pressure by accusing Pakistan of arming and training terrorists in Kashmir.
He wants a West Asia-style US-sponsored 'roadmap' on Kashmir, but feared India would not allow one.
Ferozeshah Kotla cricket ground, the venue of the April 17 Indo-Pak one-day cricket match to be watched by Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was swarming with police personnel on Friday.
In a statement made available to rediff.com, Obama, said, 'Musharraf has made the right decision to step down as President of Pakistan. It is in the interests of his country and the Pakistani people to end the political crisis that has immobilized the coalition government for too long.'
Asserting that there will be no further delay in the February 18 parliamentary elections in the country, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf rejected the allegations of pre-poll rigging and setting up ghost polling stations.
"President Musharraf has been a good ally and everyone knows that we disagreed with his decision in terms of the state of emergency that he declared. But he was just to his word, he took off his uniform. It is now a democratic government in Pakistan," she said. "I want to keep our focus on what we must do with the democratic government of Pakistan," she said while answering a question on the political crisis in Pakistan.
A large cache of ammunition and weapons was seized from the terrorists who had planned to blow up an entire bridge on Drig Road, which Musharraf's convoy was to cross while coming from the airport to Shahrah-e-Faisal, sources told Online news agency.
This is in contrast to India, where the control is with the civilian authority headed by prime minister.
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday said the American operation against Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil was a 'violation of our sovereignty' and felt the Gilani government should have been kept in the loop.
Australian media criticised Prime Minister John Howard for praising Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for his 'determined and courageous fight' against terrorism.
Claiming that his position is 'strong', Musharraf refused to bow to pressure from the PPP-PML-N combine and step down. Musharraf's allies the PML-Q backed the President and said that the PPP and PML-N together did not have a two-thirds majority and would therefore be unable to strip the president of his powers or impeach him.
Two prominent US Senators on Monday said Pakistan's beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf should look for a "graceful exit" instead of being forced out of power in the wake of parliamentary election results in which opposition parties scored stunning victories.
Embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his United States counterpart George W Bush are among the world's least trusted leaders along with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a new survey in 20 countries, including India, shows.Musharraf has the poorest ratings around the world. Only in China, 37 per cent of the people feel that he inspires confidence as a leader, outweighing negative views (30 per cent), the poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org Just two countrie
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf expressed hope that India will resume its cricketing ties with Pakistan with their scheduled visit in 2003.
The 69-year-old former military ruler's farmhouse was declared a sub-jail hours after an anti-terrorism court on Saturday remanded Musharraf to judicial custody for a fortnight.
India on Friday said time was not conducive to grant visa to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to visit the country.
Aamir Javed Musharraf was arrested in Memphis on February 19 and released Friday. He could be deported to Pakistan.
Mulla Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military commander spoke to a Pakistani newspaper.
Uttam Ghosh presents the likely avatars of Pakistan's new civilian president.
Pervez Musharraf will not appear in court despite the arrest warrant issued on Saturday by an anti-terrorism court in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, a close aide of the former military ruler has said, terming the move as an attempt to intimidate him. "There is no possibility of him (Musharraf) appearing in court," Muhammad Ali Saif, the legal advisor for the former president said hours after the warrant was issued by the court in Rawalpindi.
