Musharraf in house arrest isolation

Religious scholars issued a fatwa on Thursday to declare the exercise of franchise compulsory under Islamic injunctions, amid reports from Buner and Peshawar in the north-west and Karachi down south that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was ...

Bombings at party offices as nation prepares for elections Bombs exploded near party political offices in remote areas of Pakistan on Friday, killing four people on the eve of a landmark general election threatened by the Taliban with suicide ...

million Pakistanis will vote in general elections that will highlight the major political, social and demographic changes that have taken place in the country over the past decade amidst increasing violence. Thousands of Pakistanis have been killed ...

Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) march in a rally along with a statue of a lion, the party election symbol for the upcoming general election in Islamabad. Supporters of the political and religious party Jamat-e-Islami wave a flag ...

In politics, it is prudent never to write anyone off. Yet as Pakistan's former President General Pervez Musharraf began his judicial custody in Islamabad, the 'writing off', is on the wall. Besides the judiciary, he has won little support from other ...

ISLAMABAD: The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has warned that the election scrutiny process had turned into a witch hunt aimed at harassing and humiliating candidates and was undermining democracy. After a week of sometimes bizarre ...

ISLAMABAD Contrary to the lavish lifestyle they lead, some of the stalwarts of the Pakistan Peoples Partys (PPP) seem to be leading a hand-to-mouth existence, if their tax returns submitted with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) are anything ...

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loading... Author: Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia March 14, 2013 Foreign Policy On March 17, Tahir-ul-Qadri -- the Pakistani cleric who led popular demonstrations that brought Islamabad to a standstill for four days ...