Amid main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's demand that Pervez Musharraf be tried for treason, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the fate of the former military ruler will be decided by the people and Parliament and ruled out using his powers on "frivolous issues of the past".
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."
Demanding that Pervez Musharraf be tried for treason, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said the government should play its role in the light of the Supreme Court's verdict on the former President's actions to end the military's interference in Pakistan's political set-up.
Musharraf said the proposals were bold and well considered in the context of finding a solution to the Kashmir issue, which would be acceptable to Pakistan, India and the people of Kashmir.
A British lawmaker of Pakistani origin has talked of the possibility of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf being put on trial in the United Kingdom as he failed to respond to summons from the top court in Islamabad over his controversial decisions to impose emergency and fire judges two years ago.
With the situation in Pakistan raising concerns, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf today said he would consider becoming President again if he could play a useful role in the post even as he ruled out joining any political party.
Musharraf, Aziz give Dawood reception a miss
The Prime Minister reserved comment on whether LoC would be converted to permanent border.
J&K: Musharraf offers to join fight against terror
Bangladesh is in turmoil, which is not good news for India, which shares a porous 4000 km border with it. There is a danger of fundamentalism growing there, and India has to move in to reset its ties with the new dispensation before China and Pakistan make capital out of it, alerts Ramesh Menon.
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.
Answering a question, Williams said, "Muslim nations are paying money to individuals who can influence decisions in their favour.
Pakistan should not make efforts to "hide" the involvement of its nationals in the Mumbai terror attacks, former President Pervez Musharraf has said, insisting that "we can't deceive the world".
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf may accept New Delhi's request of clemency on humanitarian grounds for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row for carrying out multiple bomb explosions in the Islamic nation's Punjab province, in which 14 people were killed in 1990. A Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) official said the President could consider pardoning Singh. "If that happens, it will be purely on humanitarian grounds," the Nation quoted him as saying.
Former Pakistani military dictator and president Pervez Mushrarraf has said that the killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Tasser should be punished and not allowed to challenge the writ of the state, but pledged support for the controversial blasphemy law.
The US may not want to interfere in the impeachment process against President Pervez Musharraf terming it an internal affair, but is apparently willing to help ensure "full indemnity" and "honourable stay" in Pakistan for its key ally in the war on terror should he agree to quit.
Keeping up with his commando image, the title of Musharraf's autobiography was borrowed from the Clint Eastwood Hollywood movie In Line with Fire.
The report said the crucial meeting involved Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, CIA director General Michael V Hayden, new army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj, the chief of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
The state run Pakistan Television reported that Musharraf spoke to Inzamamam, coach Bob Woolmer and the team manager Salim Altaf and congratulated the team.
Musharraf said that the average Pakistani does not think very highly of the US.
Mirwaiz will be in New York for the Organisation of Islamic Conference general council meeting and Musharraf would be there to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
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.
On Russia-Pakistan relations, he said that the Russian foreign policy was fully focused on India preventing the raising of bilateral relations to a new level.
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.
A majority of Pakistanis favour their government not fighting Al Qaeda and Taliban and view United States as the greatest threat to their personal safety, according to a survey by a US agency.Almost three-quarter of Pakistanis who participated in the poll opined that embattled President Pervez Musharraf should resign and if he doesn't, he should be removed by the Parliament.The survey, conducted across Pakistan, also said that the Al Qaeda has gained public support.
Fifteen of these groups took part in sectarian violence, while the rest are jehadi outfits fighting against Western interests, the Daily Times quoted officials as saying.
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.
Calling for the early opening of these points, he said the two countries should try to make travelling in Kashmir easy.
Say it is a 'betrayal' of the Kashmir cause.
Top Pakistani lawyer and a known Musharraf critic, Aitzaz Ahsan, freed after four months of detention, on Monday said he would file an FIR against the President for "illegally detaining" deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Ahsan, who is president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and a former minister, told a news conference that the FIR will be filed under sections of the Pakistan Penal Code that mainly deal with illegal detention.
The Bush administration has said it continues to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whose allies were routed in Pakistan's general election, while maintaining that Washington has no role in the formation of a new government in Islamabad.
Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, who heads a faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, submitted an application to Quetta city police station for lodging an FIR against Musharraf in connection with the murder of his father and 66 other people of his tribe.
General Taj has been closely associated with Musharraf, having been his military secretary at the time of the 1999 coup.
The Pakistani president in an interview with NBC disagreed that the pardon was a complete 'whitewash'.
Amid pressure from India and the US to rein in the Inter-Services Intelligence, President Pervez Musharraf has come to its rescue saying any attempt to target the spy agency will weaken Pakistan as it is "the first line of defence" and lashed out at his detractors for calling him an American stooge.
