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.
Vowing not to bow to the dictates of the main Islamist alliance, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the successful amendments to the controversial Islamic law on rape would help defeat the extremists.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the concept of suicide attacks was against the spirit of Islam and his government was determined to fight terrorism in all its manifestations.
In a fresh salvo against his detractors, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he will not quit his post or leave the country because he still has a role to play, along with the political parties, in steering the country out of the 'present crisis'. Criticising reports that he might attempt to flee the country or be arrested, Musharraf made it clear that he has no intention of going abroad.
Bhutto arrived in London on Saturday from Geneva where she had appeared before a court on Friday in connection with a money laundering case.
Posters of General Musharraf will be put up in cities, towns and villages across the country. PML leaders will also organise seminars and public meetings to convince the public to vote for the president.
After his pledge to the Supreme Court to quit as army chief if re-elected as president, Pervez Musharraf on Friday carried out a major reshuffle of top Pakistan army commanders and appointed a new Inter Services Intelligence chief.
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 apex court began a crucial hearing on a slew of petitions challenging the holding of dual office by Musharraf.
The Pakistan Peoples Party chief, who is in self-imposed exile, kept her hopes alive on reaching an agreement with Musharraf despite breakdown in talks, saying the "window is not totally shut."
Bhutto wanted prime ministers to have a third term. Musharraf rejected the condition.
The daily described as 'even more interesting' Musharraf's remark that there was 'no separatist movement in Pakistan.
The decision to delay the F-16 deal was finalised at a meeting between Ambassador Jehangir Karamat and US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca on Friday
The deposed premier, who was ousted in a military coup in 1999, said that after returning to the country on September 10, he would lead his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in the campaign
Demilitarising Kashmir cannot be unilateral: India
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday said she had not yet reached a power sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf, but vowed to return to Pakistan from her self-imposed exile "very soon."
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had been asked by an 'eminent personality' to honour his commitment of not returning to the country before the end of his ten-year exile.
The deputy spokesman was non-committal on the US's position on whether Musharraf should step down from his army post.
The agreement, which aroused suspicion all around was signed with militants and not with tribal elders, as is being officially claimed, it said.
Sherpao said the breakthrough in the case came after the mobile phone sets attached to the shells were "decoded" and the contact numbers of the "culprits" were obtained and the owners traced.
Musharraf, in his book, has proposed Kashmir issue could be solved by creating special autonomy on both sides of the border. To this, the prime minister said he had said on many occasions said that we cannot not discuss moving borders.
Shouting slogans against President Pervez Musharraf, dozens of volunteers of the Pakistan Muslim League in the US has asked the UN to pressurise the "military dictator" to step aside and restore democracy in the country.
Considering petitions filed by the deposed premier and his brother Shahbaz Sharif, the apex court had ruled on Thursday that they were free to return to the Islamic nation after seven years in "forced" exile.
If we do not get out of our denial mode and act firmly against the extremist and anti-national elements, a 9/11 is waiting to happen in our homeland.
"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.
The progress in relations with India in all fields should hinge on progress on the Kashmir issue, he said.
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?
He said Musharraf was not eligible to contest for the presidents office, with or without uniform, "...because there is no place for a dictator in democracy."
'The spelling mistakes have screwed up the Index section of the book as well,' The News reported from Washington.
Mujahideen, who were brought, trained and financed by the West to fight Soviet troops coalesced into Al-Qaida after the withdrawal of the invading [Soviet] troops, he said.
Even though the US has better electronic intelligence, Pakistan is far better in terms of human intelligence, the envoy said.
In the midst of war of words between Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, even US President George W Bush seemed helpless.
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