Pervez Musharraf

President Bush with Prime Minister Gillani, June 28, 2008. (Alex Wong/Getty Images.) by Frank James President Bush and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani met today at the White House and made brief statements to reporters on the White......

by Frank James The New York Times is reporting that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will step down within days from his post, apparently after finding few constituencies in the country, not even the military he once headed, demanding that he......

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Aug. 18, 2008 from a handout photo distributed by the government's Press Information Department. by Frank James It's official. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf pulled a Richard Nixon, announced his resignation...

by Kim Barker ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The resignation of President Pervez Musharraf on Monday ends an era in Pakistan and could pave the way for a stronger civilian government that is more independent from the army than any government in......

by James Oliphant and Mark Silva DENVER -- Sen. Joe Biden, a Delaware Democrat with decades of experience in foreign and domestic policy, will join Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois on the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential ticket, the Obama campaign......

by Frank James One of the day's most intriguing and important stories is the New York Times piece which reports that President Bush issued secret orders in July to let the U.S. military launch Special Forces ground operations in......

by Frank James IntelCenter, a counterterrorism organization, has just released a transcript of the latest message from al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahari, in which Zawahiri cites the words of Malcolm X to insult President-elect Barack Obama as.....

by Mark Silva and updated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will head to India this week with hope of defusing tension between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, with Indian officials pointing to culpable......

Selig S. Harrison's July 2 Op-Ed article "Get a grip on Dhaka" asserted that Bangladesh is sheltering a growing hotbed of Islamist radicals. Unfortunately, Harrison chose to recycle the same old accusations that he wrote about two years back. Therefore,...

Politics is never dull in Pakistan. This week, it was inspirational too. On Monday, I watched people flock to the home of Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A tense standoff between the government and a coalition of opposition groups over Chaudhry's...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who became a symbol of resistance to military rule in Pakistan, quietly resumed his duties Sunday after an incendiary two-year political confrontation that brought down one government and threatened another. In a...

A war of nerves flared on the Asian subcontinent Sunday as countries in the region lined up behind the threatened U.S.-led war against global terrorism, further isolating Afghanistan, the increasingly likely target. Pakistan, one of only three...