Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto says poll boycott an option

Karachi, Nov 20 : Anticipating the possibility of the Musharraf regime rigging the general elections, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that her party—the Pakistan People’s Party—might boycott the polls scheduled for January 8, 2008.

Benazir said that she has received information from a credible source and her party has written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retired) Qazi Mohammad Farooq on this issue

She said that the PPP and other opposition parties would launch a countrywide movement against the Musharraf regime if it continued with its pick and choose policy and rigged the elections.

She also confirmed that her party is divided over the issue of participation in the general elections.

Pervez Musharraf points to rural-urban divide on emergency

Islamabad, Nov 20 : Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has justified his decision to impose a state of emergency in his country, saying that country's majority population, who resides in r

Pervez Musharraf’s regime is on verge of collapse, despite US involvement: Imran Khan

Islamabad, Nov 20 (ANI): Cricketer-turned-politician and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan has said that the regime of President General Pervez Musharraf would not continue despi

Infant strapped with bombs used at Benazir’s October 18 rally

Karachi, Nov 20 (ANI): An infant that was strapped with bombs was used to carry out the October 18 bombing on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming rally in which over 170 were killed, sources have said.

A man, carrying this infant, tried several times to hand over the child either to Benazir or any other Pakistan People’s Party leader close to her, but something always prevented him from reaching close by, The News quoted the sources, as saying.

“At the point on Sharea Faisal where the bombs exploded, Benazir saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant. But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally, ” the daily reported.

Musharraf may doff uniform this Thursday, say sources

Islamabad, Nov 20 (ANI): Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has decided to doff his army uniform by the end of this week, sources have claimed.

Press freedom essential, says Benazir Bhutto

Benazir BhuttoKarachi, Nov 19 : Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto today

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