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 Pakistan PM vows to free judgesCategory: Politics - Posted by: KingM on Mar 25th, 2008New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani has said he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule, minutes after being elected by MPs. President Pervez Musharraf in November sacked dozens of judges as the Supreme Court was set to rul...e on whether his re-election was legal. Former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was among those still held. Mr Gillani's Pakistan People's Party heads a government for the first time in 12 years after February's elections. It will lead a coalition that has a substantial majority. |
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 Bhutto's son, husband to be party co-leadersCategory: Politics - Posted by: KingM on Dec 30th, 2007The 19-year-old son of assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal, was on Sunday appointed chairman of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with his father, party officials told Reuters. "It has been decided that Bilawal will... be the chairman and Mr (Asif Ali) Zardari will be co-chairman," one of the party officials reportedly said in the southern town of Naudero, where top officials of Bhutto's party were meeting. Supporters of the slain leader met Sunday to choose her successor, while the country's ruling party said crucial Jan. 8 elections would likely be delayed up to four months. Bhutto's assassination Thursday plunged the nuclear-armed country into a political crisis and triggered nationwide riots that left at least 44 people dead ahead of the parliamentary elections, seen by the United States and other Western nations as key to promoting stability in the country. |
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 U.S. fears spillover into AfghanistanCategory: Sports - Posted by: KingM on Dec 29th, 2007President Bush held an emergency meeting of his top foreign policy aides yesterday to discuss the deepening crisis in Pakistan, as administration officials and others explored whether Thursday's assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto marks... the beginning of a new Islamic extremist offensive that could spread beyond Pakistan and undermine the U.S. war effort in neighboring Afghanistan. U.S. officials fear that a renewed campaign by Islamic militants aimed at the Pakistani government, and based along the border with Afghanistan, would complicate U.S. policy in the region by effectively merging the six-year-old war in Afghanistan with Pakistan's growing turbulence. "The fates of Afghanistan and Pakistan are inextricably tied," said J. Alexander Thier, a former United Nations official in Afghanistan who is now at the U.S. Institute for Peace. |
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 Bhutto's Death Poses Dilemma for USCategory: Politics - Posted by: KingM on Dec 27th, 2007The Bush administration scrambled Thursday with the implications of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination after investing significant diplomatic capital in promoting reconciliation between her and President Pervez Musharraf. ...While awaiting formal confirmation of Bhutto's death in an attack on an election rally, U.S. officials -- who had labored to promote stability in the nuclear-armed country that has been an anti-terrorism ally -- huddled to assess the impact of Bhutto's death just two weeks before legislative elections in the turbulent nation in which her party was expected to do well. "Certainly, we condemn the attack on this rally," said deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey. "It demonstrates that there are still those in Pakistan who want to subvert reconciliation and efforts to advance democracy." His statement was echoed by White House spokesman Scott Stanzel, who is with President Bush at Bush's Texas ranch. |
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