Source: BBC News
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to take “strong action” against any elements in his country involved in last week’s attacks in Mumbai.
Charles Haviland reports.
Link to video:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7765888.stm>

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Source: CNN
(CNN) — CNN’s Larry King spoke with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday for Larry King Live. Below is a full transcript of the interview.
Larry King: It’s a privilege to welcome to Larry King Live the president of Pakistan, from his office in Islamabad, President Asif Ali Zardari. He took office in September.
He’s […]

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Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The next U.S. president stands to inherit a potentially more dangerous challenge in Afghanistan and Pakistan than the situation that led to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
The situation is so serious that analysts say the incoming administration will need to move quickly on a broad new initiative to […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 6 (PTI) Facing flak for President Asif Ali Zardari’s description of militants in Jammu and Kashmir as “terrorists”, the Pakistan government today said there was no change in its position and it was committed to the Kashmiri people’s right of self-determination.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman said there had been no […]

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Source: Press Trust of India
Islamabad, Oct 4 (PTI) Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today reviewed security situation across the country with army chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and both of them agreed to continue the military operation against the Taliban in the restive Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Kayani met Zardari at the presidential palace here and […]

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Source: International Viewpoint
The decision to make public a presidential order of last July authorizing American strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration. Senator Barack Obama, aware of this ongoing debate during his own long battle with Hillary Clinton, […]

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor
A leading religious leader condemned Asif Ali Zardari’s comments to Sarah Palin at the UN.
Lahore, Pakistan - After the flirtation came the fatwa.
With some overly friendly comments to Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations, Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in uniting one of Pakistan’s hard-line mosques and its feminists after […]

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Source: Newsweek
In the battle against militants, President Zardari is increasingly isolated and besieged.
The security guard on the CCTV screen cut a lone, heroic figure. It was Sept. 20, and the guard stood at the barricaded entrance of Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel trying to douse the explosives-laden truck while others around him ran for cover. Seconds later, […]

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Source: VOA News
America’s top military officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, says the transition to a new U.S. administration could be a time of heightened threat for the United States. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who spoke in Los Angeles Monday, said the next president must address a growing insurgency along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. […]

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Source: Reuters
* Zardari says Pakistan won’t tolerate sovereignty violation
* Economy the greatest challenge, Zardari says
* Two bombs in Waziristan kill soldiers, civilians
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan will not tolerate any infringement of its territory in the name of the fight against militants, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday.
He was speaking after […]

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Source: Daily Nation
The recent election of Mr Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan with 68 per cent of the votes cast, has returned to supreme power the family of former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Mr Zardari was elected primarily because he is the widower of Ms Benazir, who was […]

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 This opinion was first published at The WeCite Blog
I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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Source: Reuters
Last week, after U.S. forces were reported to have launched their first ground assault in Pakistan, the website Registan.net asked the obvious question: “Did We Just Invade Pakistan?” Nearly a week and several missile attacks by U.S. drones later, I am still pondering the same question.
We have just witnessed what may have been the […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
Asif Ali Zardari uses his first news conference as president of Pakistan to signal stronger ties with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Questions remain about Zardari’s ability to lead.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — In a determined show of solidarity, the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan declared Tuesday that they stood together in the fight against […]

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Source: Guardian
Benazir Bhutto’s widower takes power with terrorism, power shortages and economic strife gripping the country
The husband of Pakistan’s assassinated former leader Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the country’s new president today.
Asif Ali Zardari took office following a brief ceremony at the presidential palace recently vacated by Pervez Musharraf, who resigned under growing pressure […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s President-elect Asif Ali Zardari Monday moved into the President House along with his two daughters, according to official Associated Press of Pakistan.
Zardari won the presidential election on Saturday and will take oath of his office on Tuesday.
Zardari was greeted at the President House by the staff. He […]

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Source: The Guardian
Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, today announced his resignation after robustly defending his record.
Expectations that the former army chief and firm US ally would go had been mounting since the coalition government, led by the party of the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said this month it planned to impeach him.
In a televised […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
Musharraf is supposed to address the country in a few hours - 1 PM to be precise. Those who want to watch it live and are abroad can watch it on geo or dawn at www.tvpakistan.com. According to Newsweek he is supposed to resign today (http://www.newsweek.com/id/153869) and leave for Saudi Arabia […]

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Assalamualikum wa rehamatullahi,

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PAKISTAN/USA: A Pakistani lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention
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Dear friends,

We have received information that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, was arrested along with her three children by […]

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Source: The Telegraph
By Massoud Ansari in Islamabad
Pervez Musharraf is considering stepping down as president of Pakistan rather than waiting to be forced out by his victorious opponents, aides have told The Sunday Telegraph.
One close confidante said that the president believed he had run out of options after three of the main parties who triumphed in […]

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Source: Scotsman News
By Jane Perlez and Carlotta Gall
FROM overthrowing Saddam to helping the Afghans expel the Soviets, America has often had cause to rue outcomes that it has been at pains to engineer. Pakistan looks set to be another case in point.
There were unmistakable signs this week that the three competing political power blocks in […]

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Source: Bloomberg
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Pakistani voters decide today whether to empower a new parliament to challenge President Pervez Musharraf’s military-backed rule.
His opponents, poised to win a majority, may try to impeach him if they win the required two-thirds of seats. Power sharing is likely if they fall short of that threshold.
“The national mood clearly […]

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Source: USF 
As your highness has said earlier that he will quit as the head of the country on the day when he will realize that people don’t want him to continue. Now Mr. President the time has come to fulfill your promises and to save whatever dignity that is left.
According to the New IRI (International […]

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President Musharraf is seen by some observers and political opponents as having weakened after having shed his uniform as Chief of Army Staff. This, I believe is a myth. Consider the following:
As far as foreign observors are concerned, I think they make their observations based on the opinions expressed in Pakistan and therefore they cannot […]

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The American government is in a dilemma over the current political situation in Pakistan. Overtly it has to lend support to President Musharraf but covertly it is indeed troubled over the political row in Pakistan.
Although the American-government proper has not expressed any doubts over President Musharraf’s ability to keep things in power, there […]

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