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Pakistan People’s Party’s Information Secretary Fauzia Wahab has praised former President Pervez Musharraf for eliminating the environment of confrontational politics from the country by introducing National Reconciliation Ordinance. She displayed her soft corner for Musharraf while speaking with reporters who asked her whether the credit for eliminating the politics of enmity ...

Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf certainly put the safety of his ministers and bureaucrats on top of his priorities even if it cost the nation millions of rupees. During the autocratic rule, the then Prime Minister Shukat Aziz had finalised a deal of importing 35 bulletproof Mercedes from Japan. Seven of ...

Former Pakistan Army Chief Mirza Aslam Beg has claimed that ex-President Pervez Musharraf had given Blackwater the green signal to carry out its terrorist operations in the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar and Quetta. He said that Blackwater was directly involved in the murder of Benazir Bhutto and Lebanese leader Rafiq ...

The Lahore High Court, for the third time, has issued notices against former President General Pervez Musharraf and former Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in connection with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case. Hearing a petition filed by a lawyer seeking registration of a criminal case against Musharraf and Elahi ...

Joining hands with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in demanding former President General Pervez Musharraf’s trial under the Article Six of the Constitution, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has vowed to put the former general behind bars. Furious over Musharraf’s remarks against President Asif Ali Zardari, senior Punjab minister and PPP ...

The Pakistan Government would execute any court warrant against former President General Pervez Musharraf, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan has said. “If a Pakistani court issues any proclamation, warrant or red warrant (against Musharraf) we will not become an obstruction in its way. Rather we will execute it. This is my ...

The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) candidates in Gilgit-Baltistan have got images of former president Pervez Musharraf printed on their election posters. Sources said that PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had learnt through TV coverage of the PML-Q candidates’ election campaign that there were huge pictures of the former president on their ...

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has insisted that all of his actions as president were constitutional and validated by the Supreme Court, and had been taken to establish democracy in the country. In an interview with a TV channel in Washington, Musharraf said Taliban leader Mullah Omar had never been ...

The relationship between Asif Ali Zardari and his predecessor Pervez Musharraf is not at all good and it was reflected in an interview when the General called the Pakistan President a “criminal”, a “fraud” and a “third rater”. In an interview with known journalist Seymour Hersh, Musharraf said that Zardari would ...

Pakistan’s current turbulent political scenario seems to have the former President General Pervez Musharraf worried. Musharraf wants President Asif Ali Zardari to continue on the post as he fears that if Nawaz Sharif manages to climb the ladder to power, then the PML-N chief would make his life ‘miserable’ and leave ...

A former prisoner, who was kept behind bars at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for six years, has vowed to lodge a criminal case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for arresting him illegally. Sami El-Haj, who is a journalist by profession and works for leading Arab television ...

Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has urged the United States to hand over the unmanned drone aircrafts to Pakistan so that it could carry out the offensive against the extremists on its own rather than relying on foreign countries. In an interview with a private television channel, Musharraf said the ...

A petition has been filed in Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday against 481 persons including former President Pervez Musharraf and former premier Shaukat Aziz and Army Chief General Ashfaque Pervez Kayani. The petition filed by Engineer Mohammed Jameel, Chairman Pakistan Communist Party, said the PPP has struck deal with the dictators ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that he will soon return to Pakistan to be among the people of the country. Talking to a delegation in London led by Pakistan Muslim League (Q) leader Amir Muqam, Musharraf called for unity between two factions of the PML-Q. He said during his rule he ...

The ‘royal’ treatment being given to former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf during his Saudi Arabia visit has his opponents worried. The special treatment has sparked speculations that Riyadh is trying to use its influence to ask the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to shun its demand for Musharraf’s trial under the ...

Pakistan’’s Attorney General Pakistan Sardar Latif Khan Khosa on Monday said that Parliament could approve the trial of former president Pervez Musharraf by passing a simple majority resolution against his November 3, 2007 acts. Talking to reporters here after the oath-taking ceremony of Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Khosa said that if ...

Former president Pervez Musharraf never took his cabinet into confidence on several key issues, including the war on terror, the Lal Masjid operation, restrictions on media, the judicial crisis and the army operation against Nawab Akbar Bugti, PML-Q dissident group leader Humayun Akhtar Khan has said. Appearing in the television programme, ...

Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf may be heading former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s way as far as taking refuge outside the country is concerned. Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Bin Ibrahim said that his country would consider giving political asylum to Musharraf if he asks for it, The ...

Welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring former President General Pervez Musharraf’s November 3, 2007 actions as ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘extra-judicial’, both Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari have termed the decision as a “good omen”. A statement issued by the Presidency after the apex court’s verdict said: ...

Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has refused to comment on Supreme Court’s verdict declaring his November 3, 2007 actions as ‘extra-judicial, illegal and unconstitutional’. Musharraf, who is currently in Italy, said he would comment on the verdict only after he himself read the apex court’s judgement, The Daily Times reports. Pakistan’s ...