Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf or nor Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto will need the military to come back to power: Time

Washington, Nov.19 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto may appear to have washed her hands off President General Pervez Musharraf, but if a report in the Time magazine is anything to go

Pakistan newspaper editors, lawyers demands end of emergency, ban on Geo and other news channels

Lahore/Peshawar, Nov.19 : The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and lawyers today called for a free media and free and fair elections and a lifting of the 16-day-old state of emergency.

John Negroponte was tougher on Benazir Bhutto than Pervez Musharraf, claim sources

Islamabad, Nov 19 : US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was tougher on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and what he told to President General Pervez Musharraf was a public po

MMA, PPP to boycott Pak election commission meeting

Islamabad/Karachi, Nov 19 : The Muttahida Majalis Amal (MMA) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have announced that they will not attend the meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan that w

Shutting down Pak TV channels is unconstitutional: Iftikhar Chaudhry

Islamabad, Nov 19 : Deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that the closing down of Geo News and ARY TV channels is unconstitutional as it violates Article 19 of the Constitution, which, according to him, is still in place.

The News quoted Justice Iftikhar as saying that the Constitution not only protected the freedom of the press, but also guarded the right of the people to know.

He lamented that both the Dubai-based Pakistani international television channels had been shut down, thus depriving the people both within Pakistan and outside to know all that was happening in the country and outside.

Benazir happy with Negroponte’s message to Musharraf

Benazir BhuttoWashington, Nov 19: Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto has said that

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