The sweeping security crackdown by Gen. Pervez Musharraf that thwarted a protest rally against his emergency decree by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto left the two adversaries locked in a standoff Friday. ...more

November 10, 2007

Police clashed violently with supporters of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday after she announced that her party would carry out a mass demonstration Friday and a protest march next week if the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, refuses to end emergency rule. ...more

November 8, 2007

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abruptly canceled plans to travel abroad Wednesday, saying she had heard rumors the government could impose a state of emergency during her absence. ...more

November 1, 2007

Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win, reviled for his role in a bloody attack on Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her followers in 2003, died Friday after a long illness, relatives and state media said. He was 59 and was said to have been suffering from leukemia. ...more

October 14, 2007

A U.N. envoy to Myanmar met Sunday with the detained opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and with several members of the military junta that last week crushed a peaceful pro-democracy uprising, the United Nations said. ...more

October 1, 2007

Pakistan's ruling party assured President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday that he would be elected to a new five-year term in October before exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns to the country. ...more

September 16, 2007