Talks between aides of President Pervez Musharraf and former premier Benazir Bhutto on forming a caretaker set-up to supervise Pakistan's general elections have been stopped by the government till the Supreme Court decides on the military ruler's re-election in uniform.
Over 14 people were injured on Saturday when angry members of the Pakistan People's party clashed with the police, blocked roads and forced closure of shops to protest against Thursday night's attack on the convoy of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that killed 165 people. Groups of PPP supporters, some of them waving the party's flag, pelted stones, burnt tyres and caused traffic snarls at Safoora Goth, University Road, Sachal Goth, Lyari, Mauripur Road, Gadap areas.
The South Africans said they are satisfied with the assurances given to them by the PCB and their security officials, but will monitor the situation on a daily basis.
Through the night, private vehicles and ambulances ferried the wounded and dead to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Aga Khan University Hospital and others where utter chaos prevailed as doctors struggled to attend to the hundreds of victims.
Musharraf and Aziz had both asked the Pakistan People's Party chief to defer her homecoming and the government had said she faced a threat from pro-Taliban militants, especially rebel leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Describing the re-election of President Pervez Musharraf as a "perversion of democracy," a leading US daily has asked his "enablers" in Washington to make it clear to the general that he must respect the decision of Pakistan's Supreme Court.
The United States must henceforth adopt policies that treat Al Qaeda and the Taliban as a hostile state, says scholar Harold Gould.
The Pakistan prime minister will be from Pakistan People's Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz joint secretary Siddique-ul Farooq said on Friday.
Pakistan People's Party chief Benazir Bhutto's return will bring political stability to the country, according to Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri.
Asked if he would agree to a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, Zardari told a magazine: "It's too early and our wounds are too deep to think of having any working relationship with the ruling party or President Pervez Musharraf."
An angry mob attempted to set ablaze Hindu temples and Sikh gurdwaras in a southwestern Pakistan province over alleged desecration of a holy book in Sindh, local media reported on Monday.
Asserting that Musharraf was 'breathing his last,' Sharif said, "So why he should be supported. The end of the dictatorship is necessary and it will be ended after all."
The Pakistan President has rejected any pressure or ultimatum in making a decision to quit as army chief
Slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's daughter Bakhtawar has said she wants to serve the people of Pakistan like her mother but was not sure if she wanted to join politics. eventeen-year-old Bakhtawar, who is at school in Dubai, said those who killed her mother feared her mission. She pledged to continue the mission of her mother, who was assassinated in December last year.
The United States has said that it supports free and fair elections in Pakistan and would like to see a moderate political force coming into power at the end of the democratic process, which will fight extremism in the country.
On a question regarding the difficulties faced by tribal people in Naxal-affected areas, Antony said steps had been taken to solve their problems and the issue was discussed at the meeting of chief ministers convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently.
Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima has said that she will continue her struggle against "Asif and a clean record" after her uncle Asif Ali Zardari was acquitted of her father's murder.
Bridging an increasingly diverse West with the Islamic world was Benazir's dream and agenda.
The Pakistani tennis ace had to miss out on the Chennai Open singles qualifying and did not have a doubles partner to choose from.
Musharraf and Bhutto had earlier met on July 27 in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, according to the Pakistani government.
Locals drove Das to a hospital in nearby Mirpur Mathelo where he was treated for his wounds.
Sharif, who had on Monday joined hands with his political rival and Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto to set conditions for free and fair polls, addressed supporters of his PML-N party at several places in the North West Frontier Province on Tuesday.
In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer from her home in Karachi, when asked if she feared that she was also about to be arrested among several other opposition figures in Pakistan, Benazir said, "I hope that Gen Musharraf won't take that stand, but I can't rule it out."
The US government should prepare a contingency plan for Pakistan in case the Pervez Musharraf regime falls because of the presence of nuclear weapons in the country, a top Opposition lawmaker has said while warning that the Islamic country was in for "a very rough period". Democrat Jane Harman, who is in the House Intelligence Panel, also said "more could have been done" to prevent the bombing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's motorcade.
Brig Ejaz Shah has been strongly criticised by Benazir and her supporters for the security failure and they have demanded his removal and arrest. When he was in the ISI, he used to be the handling officer of Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar
The series of bomb blasts across Pakistan have given residents of the federal capital cold feet and some of them are even refusing to step out to shop.
'I want to be murdered at your hands, so I can live on in history. The verdict of who is or is not a traitor cannot be pronounced by a secret agency, but by history.' Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, who survived an assassination attempt on April 19, challenges his enemies to dub him a traitor and says nothing will stop him from exposing them.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that he will quit if corruption worth a single penny is proved against him in the Panama Papers probe.
But all these voter identity cards are fakes.
She was the prime minister who gave the ISI the go-ahead to wage jihad on India. She was the one who exhorted the Pakistan trained and financed terrorists to 'jag-jag mo-mo han-han' Jagmohan the then governor of Jammu and Kashmir, with an explicit chopping motion of the right hand across the open left palm. She was the one who shrieked 'Azadi-azadi' from across the LOC and extended Zia-ul-Haq's doctrine of death by a thousand cuts to Kashmir
Mirroring the weak trend in the global markets following the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 59 points at 20,158.
'I believe one of the pro-Taliban groups could be behind her killing. The fact that she created the Taliban now seems like an irony.'
The Dawn news channel quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that a suicide bomber had struck the meeting of the Islamabad District Bar Association.
Bhutto said militancy has grown so strong in Pakistan that it posed a challenge to the unity of the country.
Police said there is no terrorism element in the incident.
He also invited all politicians accusing him and his family to present evidence of any financial wrongdoing before the judicial commission.
The religious parties, Bhutto added, have gained strength within Pakistan and "today control two of our most important provinces that border Afghanistan."
The opposition leader said Musharraf's refusal to form a commission to probe the Kargil debacle was self serving and untenable.
A non-bailable warrant was issued against former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi.
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