With pressure piling up on Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf, the former military ruler has decided in principle to quit and will announce his decision in this regard on the country's Independence Day on August 14, a media report has said.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has said that the time has come for a "final" parleys with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) over the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf and restoration of judges deposed during last year's emergency.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh briefed the leaders on the high-profile visits at an hour-long meeting.
The Pakistan president had accused the BJP of engineering riots in Gujarat.
Islamists controlling the conservative NWFP last week passed a bill to enforce sharia or Islamic law that critics say is reminiscent of neighbouring Afghanistan's hardline Taliban regime.
"We have fought wars over this Line of Control. So a dispute cannot be a solution. Certainly not," he told the BBC.
This may be a true elections where people really decide on who will represent them rather than an exercise to legitimise an unrepresentative system
The external affairs ministry has been asked to get in touch with Islamabad regarding Musharraf's visit to enable the government make necessary arrangements, including security, PM's media advisor Sanjaya Baru said.
He dismissed reports that India and Pakistan agreed to a dialogue process due to pressure from the international community.
The report did not name the leader but said it was addressed by the "supreme commander" of the organisation, a title with which Hizb Chief Sayed Salauddin was referred to by the outfit.
Ending the speculation about the president's future plans, his lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzda told a nine-member bench that he will give up his uniform before taking oath as president for a second term.
The deputy spokesman was non-committal on the US's position on whether Musharraf should step down from his army post.
He described as unfortunate the defeat of the BJP government in India, as it came after a breakthrough was achieved in Indo-Pak ties during Vajpayee's visit to Pakistan last year.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf expressed his readiness to attend a round table on Kashmir in Srinagar or New Delhi along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for finding a solution to vexed issues.
"We cannot take people on board who believe in confrontation and who think that only militancy solves the problem. They cannot be taken on board, they will remain opposed to whatever we do.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Commander of 4 Corps (Lahore) Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz and Chief of General Staff Gen Mohammed Yusuf had run a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni even went to the extent of defending Musharraf in terms of defusing the Kargil crisis
Haq, who retired as the foreign secretary last year before he was made minister of state, formed part of the inner ring of President Pervez Musharraf's foreign policy advisors.
Pakistan on Wednesday said President Pervez Musharraf's four-point proposal on Kashmir issue or any other suggestions for 'out of the box solutions' did not amount to a shift in its stand that the dispute be resolved in line with the UN resolutions.
The 19-year-old son of Benazir said that his mother would have been alive if the security sought by her had been provided by the Pakistan government.
Tharoor's social media post condoling Musharraf's demise evoked a sharp response from the Bharatiya Janata Party which accused the Congress of "Pakistan parasti (worshipping)".
The correction was made in the Urdu version of the book Sub Sey Pehlay Pakistan, (Pakistan First) released two days ago.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday dismissed major legal challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's re-election even as the general reportedly made plans to visit Saudi Arabia for talks with its ruler on the possible return of former premier Nawaz Sharif.
Zardari did not name the international and local players that acted as guarantors for the settlement but said jokingly that they had decided that Musharraf would 'play golf in his post-presidential life'.
To a question about the resumption of stalled Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two countries, Saran said "yes, if the results of the summit meeting are satisfactory."
Meet Balochistan's 80-year-old conspirator in chief against Pak President Musharraf.
"I am not going to resign. I will remain in Pakistan. Rumours about my resignations are rubbish," he said in his first interaction with the media after the new government assumed office in March. "I cannot become a useless vegetable and I can't be witness to the downfall of the state," the 64-year-old former military ruler told a select group of senior Pakistani journalists, adding that he had no plans whatsoever to leave the country.
Underlining that there is a need to "bury the hatchet", former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said the Kashmir issue, the "root cause which spawns war", needs to be resolved.
The Pakistani president claimed 'there is no proof' of terrorist activity.
Describing terrorism and extremism as a "common threat" to India and Pakistan, former President Pervez Musharraf on Friday said the two countries need to adopt a "new path of peace and harmony" to resolve the problem. "We are facing terrorism and extremism as a common threat to the whole world, the region, Pakistan and India. That is what we need to discuss and find solutions (and work) towards a resolution," he told reporters at the airport before leaving for New Delhi.
He said Pakistan's missiles and warheads are kept apart under the nuclear command he heads with Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
President Musharraf was speaking to The New York Times.
The former Pakistan captain claims the PCB did not properly communicate with him about the meeting.
Musharraf said relations between India and Pakistan improved after India brought about a 'sea change' in its Kashmir policy, recognising it as a 'dispute' and a 'core issue.'
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