Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, citing growing militant attacks and interference in government policy by members of the judiciary. But far from a solution ...

Pakistan's U.S.-allied president must resign before next month's elections or the country could risk slipping into civil war, opposition leaders and a leading independent research institute said ...

President Bush on Monday exhorted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to hold elections and relinquish his army post "as soon as possible." He said he instructed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ...

A spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai confirmed his death to The Associated Press. While his cause of death wasn't immediately clear, he was hospitalized last year in Dubai with an ...

“He may be an SOB,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt said about then Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. “But he’s our SOB.” That lesser-evil outlook might just as easily have described the U.S.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Pervez Musharraf always considered himself first and foremost a soldier, a onetime commando who believed he could shoot his way out of almost any fight. Not this time. But the ...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf threw his nation into turmoil this week when he abruptly declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and arrested thousands of political opponents, ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani military court on Friday sentenced five men to death for their roles in a 2003 suicide plot to kill President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search), an army spokesman said.

(Updates with end of emergency rule) Nov 29 (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday a state of emergency he imposed on Nov. 3 would be lifted on Dec. 16. Musharraf was sworn ...

I S L A M A B A D, Pakistan, June 20 -- Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharrafincreased his power today by suddenly dismissing thecountry's president and appointing himself as his replacement ...

Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf will stay on as head of the armed forces and this nation's president, the information minister said Wednesday, despite a previous promise that he would give up his ...