Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ventured into Pakistan's conservative Pashtun heartland Saturday to launch her election campaign, urging resistance against militancy in a main base of pro-Taliban insurgents. ...more

December 2, 2007

Soon after he returned from eight years in exile, Nawaz Sharif reminded his followers he was the prime minister who made Pakistan a nuclear power. ...more

December 2, 2007

President Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday that he intended to lift emergency rule and restore the constitution by Dec. 16, saying he had fulfilled his promise to bring democracy to Pakistan and calling on political parties to participate in January elections. ...more

November 30, 2007

A tearful President Pervez Musharraf ended a four-decade military career Wednesday, giving up his army commander's ceremonial baton on the eve of taking an oath as the purely civilian president of Pakistan. ...more

November 29, 2007

Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif will make another attempt to return from exile, his party said Thursday, setting up a new confrontation with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf before Pakistan's critical parliamentary elections. ...more

November 23, 2007

Washington's No. 2 diplomat delivered a blunt message to Pakistan's military ruler, telling him that emergency rule must be lifted and his opponents freed ahead of elections. ...more

November 18, 2007

Inside call centers and in high school social studies classes, at vegetable markets and in book bazaars, Pakistanis from different walks of life here say that ever since President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule two weeks ago, he's been the most unpopular figure in the country. Running a close second, many say, is his ally, President Bush. ...more

November 16, 2007

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday, under house arrest in Lahore, called on President Pervez Musharraf to quit and reached out to her main political rivals, paving the way for a common front among anti-government forces that have been divided by mistrust and ambition. ...more

November 14, 2007

Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days to prevent her staging a march today to protest emergency rule, police said. ...more

November 13, 2007

Pakistan eased its crackdown on opponents Saturday, releasing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest and saying it will lift a state of emergency within a month. The government, however, blocked a meeting between a deposed Supreme Court justice and Bhutto, who pledged to lead a 185-mile protest march. ...more

November 11, 2007