A Pakistani television station, which has been critical of the government, has been shut down in locations across the country, according to the station's managing director.
Barely a year after the country celebrated its return to democracy, Pakistan is ensnared in a new political crisis.
At 25-years-old, Fatima Bhutto is eligible to become prime minister of Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, took an oath of office as the nuclear-armed Islamic country's new president Tuesday.
Asif Ali Zardari survived imprisonment on corruption charges and exile to become head of state, but can he bring stability?
Nearly a year after assassins killed Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her widower won the country's presidential election and hailed his triumph as a victory for democracy.
Three top judges whose ousting by former President Pervez Musharraf sparked months of unrest and political fighting in Pakistan were reinstated on Friday.
Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a government convoy in what Pakistani officials said was an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, but it is unclear if he was present at the time of the attack.
A report that alleges he suffered depression and thoughts of suicide would have caused a political firestorm in the West. But there's barely a peep in Pakistan
Just a week after ousting former President Pervez Musharraf, the coalition government of Pakistan breaks up. Now what?
A Pakistani television station, which has been critical of the government, has been shut down in locations across the country, according to the station's managing director.
Barely a year after the country celebrated its return to democracy, Pakistan is ensnared in a new political crisis.
At 25-years-old, Fatima Bhutto is eligible to become prime minister of Pakistan.
Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, took an oath of office as the nuclear-armed Islamic country's new president Tuesday.
Asif Ali Zardari survived imprisonment on corruption charges and exile to become head of state, but can he bring stability?
Nearly a year after assassins killed Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her widower won the country's presidential election and hailed his triumph as a victory for democracy.
Three top judges whose ousting by former President Pervez Musharraf sparked months of unrest and political fighting in Pakistan were reinstated on Friday.
Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a government convoy in what Pakistani officials said was an assassination attempt against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, but it is unclear if he was present at the time of the attack.
A report that alleges he suffered depression and thoughts of suicide would have caused a political firestorm in the West. But there's barely a peep in Pakistan
Just a week after ousting former President Pervez Musharraf, the coalition government of Pakistan breaks up. Now what?
Pakistan's ruling coalition split on Monday after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif withdrew his party and vowed to nominate a rival presidential candidate.
Pakistan People's Party co-chair and widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, has accepted the nomination to be his party's candidate for the Pakistani presidency, PPP officials said Saturday night.
The party of assassinated Benazir Bhutto has nominated her widower to be Pakistan's next president, a party spokesman said Friday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory that police said killed 66 people and wounded more than 70 others.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for dual suicide bombings at a Pakistani military arms factory on Thursday that police say killed 100 people and wounded 80 others.
The Islamic militant movement, the Taliban, claimed responsibility for an explosion at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan and warned of more attacks unless the military halts its offensive against insurgents in the region, state media reported.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is negotiating through "back-channel contacts" to reach a compromise that would let him avoid impeachment, according to an official with the pro-Musharraf political party, PML-Q.
The head of Pakistan's ruling coalition announced Thursday that the government will move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan's embattled president now faces impeachment charges, and with his often warring opponents closing ranks against him, the prospects for his survival don't look good
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in China, despite an earlier report that he scrapped the trip amid a brewing political standoff in his home country.
Gun battles between paramilitary troops and militants in Pakistan's troubled southwest killed at least 41 people Sunday, including nine soldiers, the state-run news agency reported.
The United Nations moved closer to appointing a commission to investigate the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto after a meeting between Pakistan's foreign minister and the world body's secretary-general.
The protests seeking the reinstatement of judges threaten President Musharraf and his fragile government
Benazir Bhutto's widower is protecting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, despite accusing him of having an indirect role in her assassination last year, a prominent politician in Pakistan has said.
The junior partner in Pakistan's fragile coalition quit the government Tuesday, saying it has not delivered on a promise to restore judges that President Pervez Musharraf fired.
Failure to agree on reinstating sacked judges may reveal a deeper schism over how to handle President Musharraf
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday that the ruling coalition on May 12 will reinstate judges who were ousted by President Pervez Musharraf last year.
Pakistan's new government plans to announce Friday how and when it will restore dozens of judges who were ousted last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister's party is in power, a government official said.
Yousaf Raza Gilani was sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister Tuesday by the same man he blames for jailing him for five years -- President Pervez Musharraf.
A new Prime Minister promises to restore democracy and reverse the dictator's recent moves. But how far can he go without compromising the war on terror?
Pakistan's deposed chief justice made his first public appearance in four months on Monday, soon after newly-elected prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani vowed to release all judges held since last year.
The party of Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto settles on her replacement, Yousaf Raza Gilani, who was once a close aide to Bhutto
Monday was a momentous day for the people of Pakistan, but a bittersweet day for me.
Pakistan's parliament convened Monday and within minutes, it was apparent that the session in the coming days will devolve into a showdown between the newly-elected lawmakers and beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf.
The death toll from twin suicide blasts in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore grew to 28 Wednesday, as police opened an investigation into possible al Qaeda involvement in the attacks.
Pakistan's attorney general Monday rejected a plan by opposition lawmakers to reinstate the country's ousted Supreme Court justices within 30 days of parliament's first session.
Two rival parties have united against Pakistan's unpopular President, signaling that the battlefield has changed
Shortly after making their coalition official, Pakistan's main opposition parties on Sunday called on President Pervez Musharraf to immediately convene parliament.
Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, who was banned from taking part in last week's elections because of criminal convictions, is planning to contest the by-elections.
The Pakistan People's Party, which swept the parliamentary elections last week on Sunday called for an end to military operations in the southwestern Pakistani province where intelligence officials believe Taliban leaders may be holed up.
A key ally in the war on terror sees his power diminishing, and his challengers don't necessarily share U.S. priorities
A rout in parliamentary elections leaves the President defiant but vulnerable -- if his political foes can unite
One day after a pivotal vote that will determine Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's political viability, early returns on Tuesday showed gains for the opposition parties of former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and the slain Benazir Bhutto.
Initial reports appear to show Musharraf's opponents ahead, but it's a nerve-wracking path before anything is official
Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections Monday, with political parties competing for 272 seats in the National Assembly.
Athlas Khan says he wants to vote for people who are honest in Pakistan's upcoming general elections. Sporting a warm smile from under his turban, the elderly rickshaw driver adds that he wants to vote for those who are working for Allah and Prophet Mohammad.
A car bomb killed 40 people and wounded 90 Saturday in northern Pakistan when it exploded in front of an election office of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said.
Assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's party will restart its campaign this week to unseat President Pervez Musharraf's ruling party from parliament following the end of its self-imposed mourning period.
Pakistan's government is beefing up security for a "fair, transparent and peaceful" parliamentary election on Monday, a Pakistani government spokesman said.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, said Tuesday that he fully intended to take on a political role in his homeland but only after he has completed his studies at Oxford University.
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people and injured more than 58 others after detonating an explosive outside a court in Lahore on Thursday, police said.
In 1979, two years after seizing power from Pakistan's first elected leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, military dictator General Ziaul Haq executed him after a show trial. That did not end the elder Bhutto's influence.
The teenager who now leads his mother's party might have been nervous, but he soon made it clear that he was destined
As Pakistan's Musharraf reluctantly allows Scotland Yard to join the investigation, he suggests that his slain political rival ignored the threats to her safety
Detectives from Britain's Scotland Yard Saturday examined the scene where former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Dec. 27.
Pakistan postpones its vote amid broad violence following Bhutto's assassination. But the delay may heighten tensions
Honoring Benazir Bhutto's last wishes, her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) today named her teenage son Bilawal, and her husband, Asif Zardari as its leaders.
A gift given to me years ago from Benazir Bhutto, an elegantly decorated wood jewelry box slathered in lacquer, still adorns a sideboard in our home. Bhutto had wanted everyone in the room of visitors to remember her for her best. This was in 1993, not long after her second election as prime minister of Pakistan.
The appointment of Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, as party chief will rally the party -- if elections go ahead
Violence following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto could threaten Pakistan's January 8 parliamentary elections.
Two days after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, TIME learned that the former prime minister's 19-year-old son would take her place as head of the Pakistan People's Party
With a Jan. 8 election now clouded with uncertainty, Benazir Bhutto's assassination threatens to fracture the country
The most pressing priority for nuclear-armed Pakistan -- and the world -- now that the Bhutto dynasty has been terminated is to avoid having this difficult country descend into civil war.
Her enemies range from al-Qaeda to the military, but whoever is reponsible, the blasts could scare off her supporters
Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf was Saturday elected for a third term as president according to unofficial ballot results, state-run TV reported.
Benazir Bhutto's opposition party will not join a boycott against Saturday's vote that is expected to give Gen. Pervez Musharraf a third term as Pakistan's president, but the self-exiled opposition leader said, "We will not be voting for him."
Pakistan's exiled leader makes a tightly choreographed announcement of her comeback. But a new political factor awaits her: an unleashed media
After eight years in exile, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto is making a bid to return to prominence in the country as part of a power-sharing deal with president General Pervez Musharraf's military government.
Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal.
Pakistani security forces have stormed a plane carrying Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and detained him upon his arrival in the country, witnesses told CNN.
About 12,000 police were deployed across Lahore on Saturday ahead of the return of opposition leader Asif Ali Zardari, with the government vowing to block any rallies by his party and effectively sealing off the city.
Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was freed Wednesday on $5,000 bail a day after being detained by authorities.
With hundreds of supporters clashing with police in neighboring Rawalpindi, authorities Tuesday arrested Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released on bail Monday night, ending eight years in custody on corruption charges.
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