Singh, who arrived in Moscow on Wednesday on a three-day visit to attend a crucial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), pressed for expediting supply of a number of weapons systems, ammunition and spares to India by Russia under contracts which were concluded earlier.
'When economic policies were attacked by people on his own side, he went ahead despite all the criticisms in the coalition, within the party and the Sangh Parivar.'
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, facing treason trial, had a narrow escape when a powerful bomb went off on a road near his farmhouse on the outskirts of the city shortly after his convoy had passed.
With Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif sharpening his rhetoric against Pervez Musharraf, the ruling Pakistan People's Party said that it was waiting for an opportune moment to offer an exit to the embattled President."Pakistan People's Party will be the one that sends President Pervez Musharraf home," its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday night. Zardari's comments came in the wake of a demand by his Sharif for Musharraf to be made accountable for actions.
The BJP offers Saifuddin Soz 'one-way ticket' to Pakistan
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 Bush administration has shored up President Pervez Musharraf "for far too long", an influential American daily on Friday said, underlining the need for the US to work with the ruling alliance in Islamabad "to regain control" over the Pakistan Army and the Inter Services Intelligence that seem "far more loyal to the extremists than their own government."
In yet another crackdown against the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, seven activists of the outfit were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police in the last two days. Five activists of the outfit were arrested from Unhel town early on Monday. Two SIMI activists were arrested on Sunday evening on charges of providing assistance to its former chief Safdar Nagori and 12 other top activists, who were nabbed last week, in a major crackdown against the outfit.
The exit of President Pervez Musharraf from active politics of South Asia has evoked excitement and reactions all over the region.
Apart from the retired service chiefs, dozens of former commanders and some retired junior commissioned officers, who met in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Tuesday, blamed Musharraf for the current crisis in Pakistan and asked him to step down.
In a letter written to the officers, Gen Kiyani said the role of the Armed Forces had already been defined in the country's laws and Constitution and there was no role of the Army in the country's politics.
This may be a true elections where people really decide on who will represent them rather than an exercise to legitimise an unrepresentative system
Kiyani is a non-controversial officer, who had in the past not come to notice for any dubious association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda or any of Pakistan's fundamentalist organisations.
President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday handed over charge of the Pakistan army to General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani.
The officials had manhandled Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in March, soon after he was removed as chief justice by President Musharraf.
Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari and Shahi Imam of Fatehpuri mosque Mufti Mukarram Ahmed also said the moon was sighted and the fasting will start from Saturday. They appealed to Muslims to perform all rituals and prayers at home during Ramzan while adhering to social distancing and lockdown norms.
Musharraf's statement comes in the wake of the postponing of the SAARC summit which scheduled for November in Islamabad.
General Taj has been closely associated with Musharraf, having been his military secretary at the time of the 1999 coup.
Will Kiyani be able to deliver, if not bin Laden and Zawahiri, at least others such as Mulla Mohammad Omar, the amir of the neo Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, who is the de facto ruler of South Waziristan, and Maulana FM Radio Fazlullah, the de facto ruler of the Swat Valley?
Imran said the previous Pakistani governments "should not have pledged what they could not deliver."
The Pakistan government on Saturday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against a high court decision to lift travel ban slapped on former military dictator Pervez Musharraf last year.
State-run PTV quoted the Inter-Services Public Relations as saying that Kiyani will take up his new assignment once the President, who is seeking re-election in the October 6 ballot, gives up his uniform.
Musharraf is widely believed to have chosen former ISI chief Lt Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani as his successor to head the Army, says Newsweek in its upcoming issue.
A Pakistani election tribunal on Monday rejected former president Pervez Musharraf's appeal against the rejection of his nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in the southern port city of Karachi.
Tuesday's indictment of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for conspiracy to murder former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto demonstrates that the Pakistani judiciary is increasingly willing to challenge the authority of the powerful Pakistani army, says Lisa Curtis
General Musharraf had claimed that some ISI leaders have helped the Taliban.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's efforts to seek election to parliament from four seats suffered major setbacks on Tuesday when tribunals barred him from contesting the May 11 polls from two constituencies in the Pakistani capital and Punjab province.
Former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf's nomination papers for a parliamentary constituency in Rawalpindi were rejected by authorities on Monday, even as the Election Commission completed the verification of nominations of the 24,094 candidates contesting the May 11 polls.
Former President Pervez Musharraf was on Thursday formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the 2006 killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti.
Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf's legal woes continued on Tuesday when an anti-terrorism court rejected his application for bail in a case over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation. Judge Mohammad Ismaeel Baloch of the anti-terrorism court in Quetta on Monday heard the bail application filed by Musharraf's counsel Mohammad Ilyas and reserved his judgment.
The woes of Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf continued when an anti-terrorism court issued non-bailable arrest warrants against him and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz in the high-profile 2006 murder case of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti.
Musharraf had done much, but "not reached his full capacity" in dealing with terrorism and extremism, the US said.
Pakistani authorities on Saturday directed officials at airports across the country to bar former President Pervez Musharraf from going abroad. The Federal Investigation Agency directed immigration officials at all international airports to stop Musharraf from travelling abroad, TV news channels reported.
The three convicted on Friday are associates of absconding prime accused Tiger Memon.
Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is fighting for the supremacy of law, and that is why a judge has become a hero of the masses for the first time
'Jaish is known for its fidayeen activities.' 'This well trained human resource backed by military-based training makes the JeM an obvious choice over the LeT and HM.'
Ahead of its Pakistan visit from Monday, separatist outfit Hurriyat Conference Sunday said it will discuss the Kashmir issue with President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistan leaders.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody for a fortnight by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. The court in Rawalpindi had said that Musharraf should be produced for today's hearing but he was not presented before the judge for security reasons, said Chief Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency.
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