The Pakistani government on Saturday rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, despite controversy over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil. ...more

December 30, 2007

As slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest in her ancestral village Friday, the government of President Pervez Musharraf laid the blame for her assassination on a Taliban commander and said other politicians also were under threat. ...more

December 29, 2007

Benazir Bhutto was many things: zealous guardian of her dead father's legacy, aristocratic populist, accused rogue, even one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people. ...more

December 28, 2007

A suicide attacker detonated a powerful bomb inside a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 50 people and wounding 100 as they celebrated one of Islam's major holidays with the country's former interior minister, state-run media reported. ...more

December 22, 2007

A key opposition group vowed Sunday to try to undo amendments President Pervez Musharraf made to the constitution before lifting emergency rule, changes critics say will keep a tight lid on dissent. ...more

December 17, 2007

President Pervez Musharraf lifted the 6-week old state of emergency and restored the constitution on Saturday, after passing a flurry of constitutional amendments and decrees to ensure his recent actions would not be challenged by any court. ...more

December 16, 2007

Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, the two former prime ministers who have long bitterly opposed each other, joined with an opposition alliance on Monday to denounce what they saw as an unfair environment ahead of parliamentary elections planned for January. ...more

December 4, 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

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