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Legislators from the Treasury Benches on Tuesday demanded for trial of the former President Pervez Musharraf as National Assembly on Tuesday continued debate on his resignation as President on August 18 while the opposition MNAs said the country should move forward by burying the past.
Discussing the resignation of former President Pervez Musharraf, MNA Akram Masih […]

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure to step down before he is impeached, will address the nation on Monday, an official in the president’s office said.
The country’s ruling coalition has prepared impeachment charges accusing Musharraf of violations of the constitution and misconduct.

Pakistani officials say security forces have killed at least 460 al-Qaida-linked militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan. VOA’s Ayaz Gul reports, the week-long clashes also have left 22 troops dead and forced more than 200,000 people to flee to safer areas.
The fighting is taking place in the volatile northwestern Bajaur tribal region, which is […]

A leading al-Qaida military commander, reputed to be number three in the terror group, has been killed following several days of fierce fighting in Pakistan’s North West Frontier province.
Abu Saeed al-Masri, identified in local media reports as Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, al-Qaida’s commander in Afghanistan, died during a battle in the Bajaur tribal area. Yazid claimed […]

The US intelligence agencies taped Benazir Bhutto’s phone calls, prior to her arrival in Pakistan, in a bid to “play under-the-table, cut-throat games more effectively”, a new book has revealed.
“The Way of the World” authored by a Pulitzer Prize winning US journalist Ron Suskind, is full of disclosures, with its fair portion about Musharraf-Benazir conversation […]

Ahead of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s visit to Washington next week, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani called on U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and discussed a whole range of Pakistan-U.S. relations.
During the 45-minute meeting at the White House, they discussed U.S. cooperation for Pakistan in meeting food and energy challenges […]

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has softened his attitude towards Pakistan, telling a Sunday talk show that instead of sending US troops into Fata, he will work with the Pakistani government to root out terrorist camps from the area.
In an interview to CBS News, Mr Obama said that the United States could not solve the […]

Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar has constituted three benches of the Supreme Court in the next week starting from July 14 (Monday) for the hearing of hundreds of cases at Islamabad including case of disqualification of former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and suo-motu case of commutation death sentence into life imprisonment besides others.

NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Friday held discussions with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on enhancing Pakistan-US cooperation in economic, energy and security fields.
According to Geo News correspondent, after an hour long meeting with the top U.S. diplomat, Qureshi told reporters at the State Department that they also discussed strategic partnership dialogue due […]

Spokesman Pakistan Peoples Party, Farahatullah Babar Tuesday said that PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari will meet PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif during his London visit.
Talking to a private television channel the PPP Spokesman said that date of Asif Zardari’s visit has not yet been determined.
He said that Asif Ali Zardari will have multiple […]