ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – President General Musharraf rejects “any pressure or ultimatum” to decide whether to quit as army chief, his spokesman said today, after an opponent said he would step down as ...

When General Pervez Musharraf vaulted to power in a 1999 military coup, the man he overthrew was hurled into a cell in a 16th century fort near Islamabad. Some months later, Nawaz Sharif, the deposed ...

ISLAMABAD – President General Musharraf will resign as army chief if he wins re-election as president, a government lawyer said today, in the first clear official announcement that General Musharraf ...

Osama bin Laden may not have the religious authority to issue a fatwa, but for some in Pakistan, his declaration of war against President Pervez Musharraf carries the same weight as a papal ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – President General Musharraf held secret talks with opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a government minister said Saturday. Media widely reported ...

Nearly nine years after he seized power in a bloodless coup, Pakistan’s beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf has decided to call it a day. Dressed in a dark suit and looking sullen, the former army ...

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had a rough day in court on Friday, having a shoe hurled at him as he was forced to appear in two murder cases to plead for bail. He secured bail but ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The New York Times ran a Week in Review article this week about how Pakistan’s General ...

As police and the military used tear gas to suppress a protest by thousands of lawyers in Pakistan’s largest cities, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto spoke to TIME about the imposition of martial law ...

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has compared his actions in the past couple of days — imposing emergency rule — to what U.S. President Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War. Daniel ...

Less than 24 hours after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of President General Pervez Musharraf’s eligibility to run for a second term in office, government forces laid siege to the Supreme ...