With each image of police dragging demonstrators into vans, and each announcement of protest rallies banned, more and more Pakistanis are seeing a replay of the political turmoil that led to the end of a military government last year. ...more

March 16, 2009

Pakistan agreed today to reinstate a fired chief justice, a government official said, a move that could help defuse a political crisis that has sparked street battles and raised fears of instability in the country at a time of surging Islamist violence. ...more

March 16, 2009

A deadly American-led raid on a Pakistani village embarrassed the government and eroded support for the pro-U.S. presidential front-runner Thursday just two days before the election. ...more

September 5, 2008

Facing imminent impeachment charges, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation on Monday, after months of belated recognition by U.S. officials that he had become a waning asset in the campaign against terrorism. ...more

August 19, 2008

President Pervez Musharraf showed continued defiance on Sunday to threats of impeachment, saying through aides that he wanted to see the formal charges before making any decision to leave office. ...more

August 18, 2008

President Pervez Musharraf fought back Friday against politicians who asserted he would resign rather than face impeachment charges, saying through his chief political supporter that he would challenge the charges when they were brought to the parliament. ...more

August 16, 2008

Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday. ...more

August 15, 2008

In its first decisive move against Pakistan's former military ruler, the governing coalition announced Thursday that it would seek to impeach President Pervez Musharraf unless he agrees to resign. ...more

August 8, 2008

A powerful suicide blast killed at least 15 people in and injured dozens of others here Sunday evening, shortly after a large protest rally marking the one-year anniversary of the government forces' raid on a radical mosque. Most of the dead were police officers. ...more

July 7, 2008

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday. ...more

July 5, 2008