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The Great Game Continues

There is great euphoria among Pakistani liberals over the presumed 'return to democracy'. They are yet to discover Late Neo-colonialism. The manoeuvres against Musharraf bear uncanny resemblances to organised 'people's power' the CIA unleashed during 'colour revolutions' and upheavals against Hugo Chavez.

Musharraf says he's stepping down

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday to avoid impeachment charges, nearly nine years after the key U.S. ally in its campaign against terrorism took power in a coup.

Winners Uncertain as Violence Mars Pakistan Vote

Suppressed by fears of violence and vote rigging, turnout was low, which was expected to favor President Pervez Musharraf and the faction of the party that supports him, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.

Pakistan roiled by flour and electricity shortages, food price rises

Pakistan s US-backed military dictatorship has mobilized more than six thousand paramilitary troops to guard flour mills and distribution points and escort supply-trucks, as it seeks to staunch a flour shortage that has resulted in breadlines and spiraling prices.

Bhutto assassination heightens threat of US intervention in Pakistan

With Pakistan erupting in violence over the assassination of its former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and amid conflicting accounts as to both the identity of her assassins and even the cause of her death, official Washington and the American mass media have coalesced around a version of events that has been crafted to suit US strategic interests.

Bombs kill at least 24 in Pakistan

The first explosion devastated the bus early Tuesday morning as it traveled through a high-security area of Rawalpindi, a garrison city just south of Islamabad and the headquarters of the army.

Musharraf’s plane reportedly fired on

A burst of gunfire went off as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf s plane left a military base on Friday, in what one official described as a failed assassination attempt.

Gunbattles in Karachi: Pakistani president seeks to drown mounting opposition in blood

Karachi, a city of 10 million and Pakistan s commercial hub, was convulsed by gun-battles Saturday, as Pakistan s US-backed military strongman, President Pervez Musharraf, resorted to deadly violence in a bid to quash the growing popular challenge to his rule.

Musharraf's Mega Dam: A Fight against Time and the Water Level

To solve the problem, Musharraf -- who is also Pakistan's military leader -- has announced plans to construct five massive dams before everything dries up. "We are damned to build dams," he says. The so-called Basha Diamer Dam west of the village of Chilas represents the cornerstone of Musharraf's dam policy.

Israel welcomes Musharraf's mediation offer

Israel on Saturday welcomed an offer by Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but said it was doubtful the Pakistani leader could make much progress.

Talks begin on Kashmir glacier

I think Musharraf is serious about bringing peace with India in his lifetime. The two-day talks centred on the disclosure of Pakistani positions on the 20,700ft glacier, which India says it requires before demilitarisation of the world's highest battlefield can begin.

Revelations in Musharraf memoir on Pearl murder

British-born, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, better known as Sheikh Omar, was sentenced to death in July 2002 for kidnapping and killing Pearl in the southern city of Karachi earlier that year. Musharraf in his memoir "In the Line of Fire", released on Monday, wrote that while Omar masterminded the kidnapping, Pearl's execution was carried out by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Daniel Pearl, a 38-year-old reporter with the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped in Karachi in early 2002 while researching a story in the aftermath of al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on The Daily Show

Jon Stewart offers Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf tea and a twinkie - makes a joke and then asks "Where's Osama Bin Laden?" Musharraf later said if Bush and Osama were in an election against each other in Pakistan - they'd both lose miserably.

Bin Laden is alive and hiding in Afghanistan, insists Musharraf - World - Times Online

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'America paid us to hand over al-Qaeda suspects'

Musharraf of Pakistan says that the CIA has secretly paid his government millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of al-Qaeda suspects to America. The US government has strict rules banning such reward payments to foreign powers involved in the war on terror. General Musharraf does not say how much the CIA gave in return for the 369 al-Qaeda figures that he ordered should be passed to the US.