Former premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by Taliban, a chargesheet filed by Pakistani investigators to an anti-terrorism court has said, while giving clean chit to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf of any involvement in the case.
Aziz told the media in Islamabad that he has advised Musharraf not to proclaim emergency in the country.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday said that he was determined to remove his army uniform and hold the general election due by mid-January 'as close as possible to the schedule" despite the imposition of emergency in the country. "I am determined to execute this third stage of transition fully and I'm determined to remove my uniform once we correct these pillars in judiciary and the executive and the parliament," he said while explaining the reasons for emergency.
The court order came after Musharraf and the three other persons did not file representations in the court despite repeated notices issued to them. During the last hearing, the court had also warned that it would go ahead with ex-parte proceedings against three more persons named in Aslam's petition
He also expressed 'optimism and hope' over the Indo-Pak peace process.
Describing the peace process as ''fairly irreversible'', the Pakistan president said India's wish to see the LoC converted into a permanent border was not acceptable.
Diplomatically, politically and internationally India is suffering. Their international image is suffering because in their house a freedom struggle is going on.It is hurting India's ambitions.'
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.
Dressed in military overalls, the general waved to the crowd from a glass-panelled enclosure when the 31st over was being bowled in the day-night clash.
The United States has advised former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif to adopt a lenient view on the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf and let him determine his own future.The US advice came as Assistant Secretary of state Richard Boucher met Sharif at the Raiwind farm house near Lahore on Tuesday.He said the US should let Pakistan settle its issues by itself. He added if the US could not facilitate Pakistan, it should not interfere in its internal affairs.
Musharraf said he cannot come to Kochi due to prior commitments, sources said.
Singh will meet President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. He will also visit 'Nankana Sahib', near Lahore, the birthplace of Guru Nanak.
In May-June the two foreign secretaries will meet, the Pakistani president said.
Musharraf was speaking at the release of the Urdu translation of his autobiography, 'In the Line of Fire' at a function in Islamabad. The Urdu version of the book is titled 'Subse Pehla Pakistan' (Pakistan First).
"President Musharraf is coming here [Delhi] on April 16 evening to watch the cricket match on April 17," External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh said in Lok Sabha.
Stung by the string of attacks targeting the military in the last few days, Musharraf said that the Army should thoroughly investigate how a suicide bomber was able to penetrate the security cover at the army base.
Pakistan on Friday expressed its satisfaction over a United Nations panel's report on the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto, saying it had vindicated its stand that former dictator-turned-president Pervez Musharraf's regime was responsible for her assassination in 2007.
Msg Board on whether the PM should have talks with Musharraf during the NAM Summit in Havana?
The Pakistan government has informed a court that it cannot extradite former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with a case registered over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a military operation in 2006.
Warning that any move to impeach him could 'destabilise the country', 64-year-old Musharraf, who abruptly cancelled his visit to China to attend the Olympic Games opening, told leaders of his ally Pakistan Muslim League-Q that he would continue to play his constitutional role as the head of State.
The Pakistani president in an interview with NBC disagreed that the pardon was a complete 'whitewash'.
Former president Pervez Musharraf, currently living in self-exile in Britain and Dubai, will be arrested whenever he returns to Pakistan, Punjab Governor Latif Khosa has said.
The meeting took place at Bill Clinton's request, according to a report.
The new book is already a best seller and has been translated into 20 languages, including Hindi and Hebrew, but surprisingly not in Urdu.
One of the most important items on Shaharyar's agenda would be to seek his opinion on whether to advertise for the CEO's post.
Describing Kashmir and Palestinian issues as old disputes, Musharraf told teachers and students at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing that as far as Pakistan was concerned, "we are going on a bilateral approach with India"."We hope that good sense prevails on both sides to resolve this long standing dispute amicably between our two countries for the benefit of people of these two countries," Musharraf, who is on a six-day visit to China, said.
Vajpayee insisted that his government believed that there could be no normalcy in ties until there was an end to cross-border terrorism.
Kashmir has to be settled in an 'equitable and honourable way acceptable to India, Pakistan and Kashmiris', he said.
A Pakistani soldier convicted of taking part in a failed assassination plot against President Pervez Musharraf was hanged on Saturday, an official and military spokesman said.\n
"There is a mother of all battles in Iraq, and this will be the mother of all elections from Pakistan's point of view. They (polls) are very, very critical," he said in an address to the National Library is Islamabad.
In another strong indication how difficult it would be for the former military ruler to cling on to power, the poll found that the two main opposition parties -- the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) -- had a combined backing of an overwhelming 72 per cent.
Who is telling the truth -- Musharraf in his book in which he claimed that Nawaz was on board or General Kiani, who claims that Nawaz was informed in passing after the Pakistan army had moved into the Kargil heights?
"Any agreement on Kashmir should be pursued with good intentions and sincerity keeping in mind the aspirations of the people of Kashmir to take this process forward," he said.
The Pakistan Muslim League-N chief said his party will not accept any national unity government headed by Musharraf.
They were arrested from a mosque in Lahore, the Daily Times newspaper quoted sources as saying on Sunday.
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