Fearing impeachment, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf resigned Monday ending a nine-year reign that began when he usurped power in a bloodless coup in October 1999. “Whether I win or lose the impeachment, the nation will lose,†Musharraf (a former military chief) said in a televised address.
Pakistanis have dealt a crushing defeat to dictator and President Pervez Musharraf in the elections held Monday. Many of Musharraf’s cronies were defeated in the elections. The New York Times said Monday in its online edition: From unofficial results the private news channel, Aaj Television, forecast that the Pakistan Peoples Party would win 110 seats […]
Former Pakistan Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in Rawalpindi today at 6:16 PM local time adding to the instability of this nuclear nation in South Asia. Early reports say that a suicide bomber shot Benazir in the neck and chest as she was leaving a campaign rally in […]
Pakistan has taken billions of dollars from U.S. aid to attack Al Queda and Taliban and diverted it to acquire weapons to counter India, reports the New York Times in the Monday edition of the paper. The NYT reports that U.S. aid of $5 billion since 9/11 to boost Pakistan’s military efforts against Al Queda […]
A new poll published after President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule on November 3, 2007 shows that two-thirds of Pakistanis want him to quit while 70% feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. Conducted by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute, the poll casts a harsh spotlight on Musharraf with 67% calling for the […]
Pakistan President and military chief General Pervez Musharraf has imposed Emergency rule in the country and suspended the constitution. But eight of the 11 justices of Pakistan’s independent and feisty Supreme Court have already signed an order declaring the Emergency illegal. The Supreme Court was set to rule on the constitutionality of General Musharraf’s re-election […]