Pervez Musharraf News

Pakistan's National Assembly elections on May 11 provided a significant victory to Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party.

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Islamabad: Pakistan's incoming PML-N government will play its part to lower tensions with India and to normalise relations between the two countries, says a top aide of Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif.

A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.

The Anti-Terrorism Court of Rawalpindi on Monday approved the bail of former president General Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.

Pakistan's all-powerful military overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago and hustled him off into exile in handcuffs.

ISLAMABAD: Nobody could have even imagined that the incarcerated former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf would be so powerful.

Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani Saturday met with incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif here at their Model Town residence.

In the judges' detention case, the special anti-terrorism court of Islamabad on Saturday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for 14 days.

New prime minister who once tried to turn Pakistan into Islamic caliphate is seen by electorate as country's best hope Nawaz Sharif is beginning his third stint as prime minister after a landslide election victory.

Lahore, May 16 : Former Pakistan army chief and president Pervez Musharraf, who is being tried in a number of cases of serious nature and detained at his farmhouse sub-jail, will leave the country before the swearing-in of the new government, according to PML-Z chief and MNA-elect Ijazul Haq.

ISLAMABAD: Since the announcement of election results, many Pakistan People's Party stalwarts, including the Punjab governor and Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman, have resigned, but Attorney General of Pakistan Irfan Qadir is not ready to resign and wants to continue until the president tells him to do so.

The anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Wednesday directed the government to appoint a public prosecutor in the judges' detention case against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf by May 18 after Advocate Syed Tayyab excused himself from performing the role due to personal reasons.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Peoples Party leader, Sherry Rehman, has resigned as Pakistani ambassador to Washington with immediate effect mostly owing to the fact that her appointment was a political one.

Pakistan's elections come at a key junction in the region's geopolitics, with the public firmly opposed to the US 'war on terror' being conducted on Pakistani soil with no regard for its sovereignty.

Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz has emerged the single largest party in Pakistan's landmark general elections by bagging 122 of the 272 parliamentary seats that went to the polls on May 11, the Election Commission announced today.

Nawaz Sharif , whose party gained most seats in Pakistan 's May 11 election and is set to form the next government, plans to name Mohammad Ishaq Dar as finance minister, ahead of a national budget in June.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Tuesday extended former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's house arrest over the murder of Benazir Bhutto for 14 days, a prosecutor said.

In the Benazir Bhutto murder case, the special anti-terrorism court of Rawalpindi on Tuesday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to May 28, DawnNews reported.

The moment Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan, the clock will begin ticking against him.