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A suicide blast killed the Pakistani military’s top medical officer and three others on Monday, as key US “war on terror” ally President Pervez Musharraf rejected fresh pressure to step down.
The deadly attack, which also injured 29 in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, marks a resurgence in violence after a lull during elections last week […]

Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest want talks with the winners of last week’s elections and the new government they form to end President Pervez Musharraf’s anti-terrorism campaign, Associated Press reported.

Three senators who met with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after opposition parties won a governing majority last week urged a “graceful exit” from power for the close Bush terror-fighting ally.
“Were I their political adviser, that’s what I would advise,” Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday. He did not favor […]

Having apparently run out of options, Pakistan’s beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf “is considering stepping down in days” to avoid a showdown with the newly elected Parliament in that country.

Pakistan’s two main opposition groups are trying to put aside decades of rivalry to form a two- thirds majority in Parliament with other parties to challenge President Pervez Musharraf’s rule.
Power sharing won’t be easy. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League and the late Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party have never formed a coalition […]

The Rawalpindi Express is gearing up to thunder over the Indian cricket scene in a big way. Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is in Mumbai to meet Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is also the owner of the Kolkata IPL team.
On Monday night, Shoaib met King Khan at his Bandstand bungalow, Mannat and another […]

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday embraced Pakistan’s elections as “a significant victory” for democracy and said he hoped the new government would “be friends of the United States.”
“It’s now time for the newly elected folks to show up and form their government. And the question then is: ‘will they be friends of the […]

Early results show Pakistani opposition parties have made “big gains” in elections that could determine the future of President Pervez Musharraf, the former ruling party and officials said Tuesday.
The parties of former premier Nawaz Sharif and slain politician Benazir Bhutto opened up a lead over the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League-Q after Monday’s crucial parliamentary polls, […]

‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be a retired major-general. He is referring to my last […]

Pakistanis voted Monday for a new parliament in elections shadowed by fears of violence and questions about the political survival of President Pervez Musharraf — America’s key ally in the war on terror.
The vote was delayed six weeks after former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27, and polls opened Monday amid tight […]