Pakistan's ruling party united behind President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday and vowed to fight any corruption charges brought against its leaders in a bid to exit a damaging political crisis. Trying to ride out what could be the worst challenge to Zardari's troubled 15 months in power, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) made it clear it would not seek any resignations after a court scrapped an amnesty on graft charges. The supreme court's move to annul a decree protecting more than 8,000 people... Read Full Story
President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday chaired crisis talks with Pakistan's ruling party on how to prevent his government unravelling after a court scrapped an amnesty on corruption charges. In a bid to head off what could be the worst political crisis of his troubled 15 months in power, the president convened the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in the capital Islamabad. The Supreme Court's move to annul a decree protecting more than 8,000 people, including... Read Full Story
President Asif Ali Zardari chaired crisis talks with Pakistan's ruling party Saturday on how to prevent his government unravelling after a court scrapped an amnesty on corruption charges. In a bid to head off what could be the worst political crisis of his troubled 15 months in power, the president convened the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in the capital Islamabad. The meeting comes after the Supreme Court annulled a decree protecting more than 8,000... Read Full Story
President Asif Ali Zardari was to chair crisis talks with Pakistan's ruling party Saturday on how to prevent his government collapsing after a court scrapped an amnesty on corruption charges. In a bid to head off what could be the worst political crisis of his troubled 15 months in power, the president called a meeting of the executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in the capital Islamabad. The meeting comes after the Supreme Court annulled a decree protecting more than 8... Read Full Story
The death toll from a suicide attack on a Pakistan mosque rose to 15 on Saturday after bodies were plucked from the rubble and people succumbed to their injuries, officials said. The bomber rammed a vehicle rigged with explosives into a mosque next to a police headquarters in Lower Dir, a northwest district that Pakistan claims to have cleared of Taliban fighters after a major offensive this year. "The death toll has reached 15 in the suicide blast. Two people died in hospital and two people... Read Full Story
The death toll from a suicide attack on a Pakistan mosque rose to 15 Saturday after bodies were plucked from the rubble and people succumbed to their injuries, officials said. The bomber rammed a vehicle rigged with explosives into a mosque next to a police headquarters in Lower Dir, a northwest district that Pakistan claims to have cleared of Taliban fighters after a major offensive this year. "The death toll has reached 15 in the suicide blast. Two people died in hospital and two people... Read Full Story
A Pakistani court on Friday summoned the interior minister over corruption charges, as the government grappled with the fallout from a court ruling scrapping an amnesty for a raft of politicians. The defence minister has already been barred from leaving the country, as the top anti-corruption body begins implementing a Supreme Court ruling binning a decree protecting politicians including President Asif Ali Zardari. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has called for travel bans on more... Read Full Story
A suicide bomber rammed a car into a mosque during Friday prayers killing 11 people in northwest Pakistan, while a US missile strike pounded the troubled region leaving seven militants dead. The unrest comes as Pakistan wages multiple military offensives against Taliban insurgents across the northwest, prompting a wave of retaliatory suicide bombings hitting both security and civilian targets. Washington, meanwhile, has been piling the pressure on Pakistan to dismantle Islamist extremist... Read Full Story
Three suspected militants were killed Friday in the third US drone missile strike on Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan in two days, security officials said. The strike hit a village in the Dattakhel region close to North Waziristan's main town Miranshah -- the same northwestern area where two strikes hours apart on Thursday killed at least 14 militants and destroyed their hideouts. Islamabad is under growing US pressure to dismantle Islamist extremist networks along its lawless... Read Full Story
Three suspected militants were killed Friday in the third US drone missile strike on Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan in two days, security officials said. The strike hit a village in the Dattakhel region close to North Waziristan's main town Miranshah -- the same northwestern area where two strikes hours apart on Thursday killed at least 14 militants and destroyed their hideouts. Islamabad is under growing US pressure to dismantle Islamist extremist networks along its lawless... Read Full Story
