Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto accused the government Sunday of failing to crush Islamic militants, days after a suicide bombing killed 56 people during prayers in a mosque. ...more

December 24, 2007

Gunmen killed three people in an attack Saturday on a party office of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police said - the first reported deaths apparently linked to Pakistan's current election campaign. ...more

December 9, 2007

Hugo Chavez sought to cement his power and end presidential term limits in a vote Sunday that the government and opposition said was too close to call. ...more

December 3, 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

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

Conservative Prime Minister John Howard, one of the Bush administration's staunchest allies, suffered a humiliating election defeat Saturday at the hands of an opposition leader who has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq. ...more

November 25, 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

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