Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in Pakistan's Punjab province were on Friday rejected, even as the Supreme Court decided to hear a petition seeking the former military ruler's trial for treason.
An External Affairs Ministry spokesman called the attack 'heinous'.
Pakistan allegedly was the source of the centrifuge design technology in Libya's nuclear programme.
'Storming a mosque, that too with a VIP tag, would have been impossible in India.'
Musharraf has said that the two cannot return to Pakistan.
The Commonwealth on Monday gave an ultimatum to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asking him to repeal the emergency provisions.
The PM is supposed to meet the Pak President at the NAM summit.
The decision against imposing Emergency was taken after Musharraf met legal experts, security officials and leaders from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League.
"Everything seems to have undergone a change here. There is a new sky here. I remember meeting Aruna Asaf Ali the last time I came here, which was in 1982," remarked Zarin.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf returned to Islamabad on Tuesday from a four-nation visit to Europe during which he attempted to shore up support for his controversial regime.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who is a 'proclaimed offender' in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, on Wednesday announced that he will contest the upcoming general elections from Chitral, a constituency in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has conceded for the first time that a gunman may have shot former Premier Benazir Bhutto.
The lone Hindu to reach the highest echelons of Pakistan's judiciary, Bhagwandas refused to endorse the emergency and was dismissed by Musharraf along with other judges. He was the second highest ranking apex court judge after deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.
The US has recently announced that Pakistan could buy the F-16 aircraft and the officials would work out the modalities.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson and member of the Rajya Sabha, Prakash Jawadekar, claimed that former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's admission that they had recruited and trained terrorists in camps to carry out terrorist activities in India has vindicated his party's stand
Pakistani security forces on Thursday came under a stinging attack from former president Pervez Musharraf for not reacting swiftly to the strike on the Sri Lankan cricket team and taking the terrorists head-on.
Addressing a public rally in Kohat, Durrani said that contrary to her claims for the last seven years that she won't back Musharraf, Bhutto was now convinced that Musharraf's development agenda had nationwide support.
And while this extremist-linked press spins on relatively unmolested, the country's secular television stations and newspapers face consistent harassment by the government,
The petition points out that according to the Army Regulation Act of Pakistan, Musharraf should have retired on August 10, 2003.
Pakistan's main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has asked the government to put former President Pervez Musharraf on trial for allegedly being responsible for the assassination of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
Terrorism was a serious threat to Pakistan's peace, security and development, said Musharraf.
Observers from 20 other countries are taking part in the exercise with the nine other countries participating with ships, aviation fleets and gunships.
Leaders of various political outfits on Thursday lashed out at former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf over his remark that he was ''proud of the Kargil operation'' during which the Pakistani troops had crossed the Line of Control and occupied positions on the Indian side in 1999.
The action came after Justice Choudhary was called for discussions by Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and confronted with the charges in answer to which he could not give any satisfactory reply.
Hours after the Pakistani Taliban threatened to kill him, Pakistan's former military ruler and President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday appeared unfazed and said he will return home from self-exile to lead his party in the upcoming general election. "I am going home as announced. I am not scared of anything -- be it the death threat from terrorists or the arrest on arrival," Musharraf said after addressing his party supporters at a reception.
The Pakistani leader said he had decided to cut short his stay in Agra twice after the Indians had "backed out" of what had been agreed earlier. However, he had been persuaded by his diplomats not to do so.
The bench last week said that the long drawn-out proceedings would end by July 20 and an order can be expected any time thereafter.
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf was forced to delay his planned return to the country from self-exile after he failed to get any assurances from the military and the Pakistan People's Party-led government about his security, sources said on Friday. Two Pakistani courts have issued arrest warrants for Musharraf in cases related to the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti and former premier Benazir Bhutto.
Amid Western concern over deteriorating security situation and Pakistan's ability to hold free and fair polls, President Pervez Musharraf arrived in London on a three-day visit during which he will meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown among others.
Hailing the Havana meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, the US State Department on Monday said it welcomed any efforts on the parts of the two leaders to discuss "outstanding concerns".
The Saturday Tribune quoted 'a source assigned to a high strategic position' as saying that the December 14 attack was carried out at Musharraf's instigation.
India had asserted that it was a 'sovereign' decision to be taken by it based on security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and could not be 'dictated by any foreign government.'
India should consider Musharraf proposals: Baig
With Pakistan's ruling coalition gunning for President Pervez Musharraf, the United States has said that he made a "number of mistakes" during his eight-year reign including imposing a state of emergency last year.
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