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 ...

Islamabad — Gen. Pervez Musharraf, whose role as Pakistan's military ruler at the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S. made him a household ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like a Shakespearean tragedy, the final chapter of General Pervez Musharraf’s reign began with an echo of the original sin of its first pages: the October 1999 coup by which he overthrew Nawaz Sharif, ...

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 — 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 ...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf vowed Saturday to resist pressure for him to resign but suggested he might quit if Parliament reduces him to a toothless figurehead. Musharraf, a stalwart U.S.

Has there ever been an election campaign with so many anti-climaxes? A surprise ruling by Pakistan’s Supreme Court Friday on President General Pervez Musharraf’s eligibility to run for a second term ...