Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday that parliamentary elections will be held by Feb. 15 and restated his pledge to step down as the country's military leader. "I am on record as saying these things ...

Pakistan's U.S.-allied president must resign before next month's elections or the country could risk slipping into civil war, opposition leaders and a leading independent research institute said ...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, citing growing militant attacks and interference in government policy by members of the judiciary. But far from a solution ...

A spokeswoman for the Pakistani Consulate in Dubai confirmed his death to The Associated Press. While his cause of death wasn't immediately clear, he was hospitalized last year in Dubai with an ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Pervez Musharraf always considered himself first and foremost a soldier, a onetime commando who believed he could shoot his way out of almost any fight. Not this time. But the ...

President Bush on Monday exhorted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to hold elections and relinquish his army post "as soon as possible." He said he instructed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ...

“He may be an SOB,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt said about then Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. “But he’s our SOB.” That lesser-evil outlook might just as easily have described the U.S.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani military court on Friday sentenced five men to death for their roles in a 2003 suicide plot to kill President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search), an army spokesman said.

Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf will stay on as head of the armed forces and this nation's president, the information minister said Wednesday, despite a previous promise that he would give up his ...

(Updates with end of emergency rule) Nov 29 (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday a state of emergency he imposed on Nov. 3 would be lifted on Dec. 16. Musharraf was sworn ...