Pervez Musharraf News

South East Asia News.Net Friday 4th April, 2008 Islamabad, Apr 4 : It seems that the largest party in the new Pakistan coalition government, the PPP won't pay heed to the second largest party PML-N's wish, and ... via Southeast Asia News

“The neglect of Afghanistan and Pakistan reflects a failure to recognize this region as the central battlefield in the war against al-Qaeda.”

WASHINGTON: Democrats have called on President George W. Bush to refocus US counter-terror efforts to Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying that over-emphasis on Iraq has allowed Islamic extremists to regroup along ... via The News

“We were told democracy (in Pakistan) would inflame the radicals”

Thursday April 03, 2008 BUCHAREST: Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Wednesday he wanted direct talks between his military alliance in Afghanistan and the new government in Pakistan. via PakTribune

By Qudssia Akhlaque ISLAMABAD: In a notable departure from the past, only two federal ministers, both representing the Pakistan People's Party, will accompany President Pervez Musharraf when he embarks on his ... via The News

“I thought Aitzaz would get up and leave but he just sat there”

Karachi, Apr 4: PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari is learnt to have pulled up deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhary's advocate Aitzaz Ahsan for making a bid to claim the credit of forcing President Pervez ... via Daily India

“It will also smoothen the functioning of the Council of Common Interests and ensure that autonomy granted to provinces by the basic law is not violated by anyone on any ground”

LAHORE * The new constitutional package to be introduced during the next session of Pakistan's National Assembly will take away many crucial powers of the president. via The Peninsula

“Musharraf as president was to go in the background then”

ISLAMABAD * The perceived isolation of beleaguered President general Pervez Musharraf and his sidelining after the swearing-in of the new Pakistan government has not happened in a haphazard way but is the ... via The Peninsula

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf will administer oath to a 23-strong first batch of federal ministers today . via South Asian Media Net

By Tahir Murtaza, RAWALPINDI, Apr 5 : President Pervez Musharraf Saturday said Pakistan and China enjoy a deep multifaceted relationship that was being translated into deeper trade and economic relations. via Kashar News

“They are stronger than they were back in 2001.”

Hall at the Mexico border WASHINGTON Two of the Hudson Valley's House members are back from fact-finding missions last week, Congressman Maurice Hinchey of Hurley in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Congressman ... via Mid-Hudson News

“I wanted to bring it further down but it is not possible in a coalition government”

Sunday April 06, 2008 LAHORE: The PML-N and the PPP have finalised a power-sharing formula in the Punjab under which the former will get 22 and the latter 13 ministers in the 35-member cabinet. via PakTribune

“Mukhtar's views on President Musharraf (were made) in his personal capacity (but) we are totally convinced that Musharraf and Pakistan can't go together.”

Agencies Posted online: Friday , April 04, 2008 at 1522 hrs IST Islamabad, April 4: Calling President Pervez Musharraf a "cashable product", Pakistan's new Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said the ... via Express India

“Nothing less is acceptable to our party.”

Pakistan's deposed chief justice has scrapped plans to address lawyers' associations across the country and press for his restoration following his release from house arrest last week.

A lawyer close to Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry said Friday that the judge plans to stay in Islamabad and not make any speeches. Ali Ahmad Kurd said the move comes amid expectations the new government will restore Chaudhry and other judges axed in November.

'We took this decision on our own so we do not give any impression that we are pressuring the government,' Kurd said. 'The chief justice has to remain calm and quiet. There will be no statements and no addresses.' Read more

Washington, Apr 5: A key US negotiator for ensuing peace in the Middle East has said that PPP co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif had "faulted" while declaring that they intend to deal ... via Daily India

“Muslim countries have 70 percent of energy resources and 40 percent of natural resources. However, their trade share is only seven to eight percent globally and trade within the Muslim world is less than 13 percent”

Inaugurating the 13th General Assembly of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Co-operation , he said terrorism would continue as a threat until all ... via Daily Times

“The NAB Ordinance is a part of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and cannot be altered, repealed or amended without prior sanction of the president”

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau and the NAB Ordinance 1999 can be changed only through a constitutional amendment with the consent of President Pervez Musharraf. via Daily Times

Why more and more ballots are inconclusive AP Electoral passions in Pakistan "PEOPLE have given their verdict, we respect it." When, in February, a spokesman for Pakistan's ruling party made that stoical ... via The Economist

“The armed forces' role is defined in the constitution, it is the politicians who forced army into politics and tempted them to take over in the past. But I think they [army leaders] have learnt a bitter lesson”

President Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, is confronting a hostile coalition government that won elections in February Pakistan's army is speeding up the transfer of power to ... via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“When you have a problem with your own family, you don't kill your own family. You sit and talk.”

The new Pakistani prime minister is distancing his government from the U.S.-sponsored "war on terror" that President Pervez Musharraf carried on for six years. via Austin American Statesman

President Hu Jintao will next week welcome 10 heads of state to Hainan province for the 7th Boao Forum for Asia , Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said yesterday at a press conference. via People's Daily