kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Pakistani lawyers met Saturday to decide whether to mount street protests against the government after its failure to reinstate judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Pakistani lawyers met Saturday to decide whether to mount street protests against the government after its failure to reinstate judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
While the election of a civilian government in Islamabad has been universally welcomed as part of Pakistan's democratic transition, the new government's approach to counterterrorism has evoked misgivings in Washington. Reacting to what is viewed as President Pervez Musharraf’s US-backed militarized effort to defeat terrorism, the elected government headed by Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani has...
Pakistan Times! (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Aitzaz vows to continue struggle against President President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan on Thursday vowed that the lawyers would continue struggle against all illegal and unconstitutional measures of President Pervez Musharraf. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, he said lawyers would decide if he should contest the by-elections due on June 26, 2008. [...]...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Islamabad , May 14 (ANI): The deposed provincial high court judges have reportedly rejected a Presidency offer to reinstate them as judges at the cost of their seniority as compared to their colleagues who preferred to work with President Pervez Musharraf under the PCO (Provincial Constitutional Order) promulgated on November 3, 2007. In the unusual [...]
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pamela Constable reports for The Washington Post: "Pakistan's fragile governing coalition cracked open Monday as one of its major parties withdrew from the cabinet, less than three months after elections that had united rival factions opposed to President Pervez Musharraf. Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, announced that his party would leave all federal posts after...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
By Muhammad Najeeb Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) A leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Tuesday compared President Pervez Musharraf to a “dangerous virus” that was harmful for Pakistan's democracy and said it was important to remove him. “Just like a deadly virus in any computer that can destroy the whole system, Musharraf is a dangerous [...]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
IN Pakistan food prices are spiralling, the currency is on the slide, cities face constant power cuts and suicide bombers lurk. But it has taken a dispute over the reappointment of judges sacked last year by the President, Pervez Musharraf, to paralyse the country's fragile new government.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
KARACHI - Embattled President Pervez Musharraf will gain the most from the political divorce between the country's two biggest opposition parties who had joined a hostile coalition government.
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
This is looking worse and worse: "Pakistan's six-week-old coalition is unraveling because of a dispute over whether to remove President Pervez Musharraf, undermining efforts to rein in surging food prices and maintain stability. Nine ministers from Nawaz Sharif's party withdrew...
rediff News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Pakistan People's Party, heading the coalition, decided to keep the ministerial portfolios, except for Finance, vacant hoping to bring around Nawaz Sharif's party which pulled out its ministers after the deadline for reinstating the judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf expired on Monday.
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The junior partner in Pakistan's fragile coalition says it is quitting the government because the coalition has not yet delivered on its promise to restore that Supreme Court judges that President Pervez Musharraf fired, the party said.
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 — Pakistan's fragile governing coalition cracked open Monday as one of its major parties withdrew from the cabinet, less than three months after elections that had united rival factions opposed to President Pervez Musharraf. Read the full story
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Dispute over judges widens rift between coalition partners One of the two main parties in Pakistan's ruling coalition declared yesterday that it will quit the government in a dispute over when and how to reinstate judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf during a crackdown late last year.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Pakistan's fragile governing coalition cracked open Monday as one of its major parties withdrew from the Cabinet, less than three months after elections that had united rival factions opposed to President Pervez Musharraf.
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abdulruff | 04/15/2008
Pakistan‘s Lingering Crisis ! One feels like looking back: a bitter poll campaign was fought by the PPP-PMK (N) and removal of President Pervez Musharraf was on the top of opposition campaign agenda once polls were announced by President Musharraf. But less than two-thirds majority obtained by the opposition combine against...
jmax92 | 11/14/2007
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday he expects to step down as army chief by the end of November and begin a new presidential term as a civilian, warning that Pakistan risked chaos if he gave into opposition demands to resign. In an interview with The Associated Press, he accused former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , currently under house arrest, of fueling political
raimondo | 11/12/2007
Pakistan Parliamentary Election to be held by Jan-9: Musharraf Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf said that the Pakistan general election would be held by January 9, 2008. Musharraf said that he would take off his uniform and would sworn in as a civilian president after the Supreme Court verdict on the petitions challenging his re-election on Oct 6. Under mounting pressure from the opposition...
