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Musharraf toppled Nawaz Sharif to avoid court martial, says book By Amir Mir, Correspondent Lahore: General Pervez Musharraf had toppled the Sharif government in 1999 to avoid his court martial in accordance with the recommendations of an inquiry committee set up by the prime minister...

Every iota a lota “THE Maulvis might jeer at us all they want but it is the humble lota that they need for ablution before their prayers,” quipped Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Niazi the other day on a private TV channel. There is no harm in becoming one, said...

The fire of hubris By Khurram Dastgir-Khan In the Line of Fire is not a memoir but an unwieldy mix of autobiography and 'apologia pro vita sua', i.e., a defence of one's life. General Musharraf's private life is for Allah Almighty to judge. His public life -- from the gathering dark of...

More to Clinton-Nawaz rendezvous than known By Nayyar Zaidi WASHINGTON: “(President Bill) Clinton asked (Prime Minister Mian Nawaz) Sharif if he knew how advanced the threat of nuclear war really was. Did Sharif know his military was preparing their nuclear tipped missiles?”...

At What Cost Israel-China Ties? by P. R. Kumaraswamy Middle East Quarterly Spring 2006 Israel's military ties with China—especially the upgrading of Harpy surveillance aircraft—are undermining the Jewish state's security. The dispute goes beyond friendly and short-lived...

PLA Navy: From 'Green Water' to 'Blue Water' – Part I Dr. Alexandr Nemets and Dr. Thomas Torda Friday, July 26, 2002 In the first half of 2002, the attention of Western military specialists was drawn to two large-scale contracts concluded by China and Russia and aimed at...

West will fail in 'war on terror' without Pakistan: Musharraf ISLAMABAD: The United States and its allies will fail in the so-called "war on terror" without the support of Pakistan and its intelligence service, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday. In an interview with BBC...

Musharraf, Karzai clash at Bush dinner Our Special Correspondent WASHINGTON - With tensions running high between presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan, US President George Bush held what the White House described as a ‘constructive exchange’ with his 'personal friends' at an...

Inzamam cleared of ball tampering Cricinfo staff September 28, 2006 Inzamam-ul-Haq has been cleared of charges of ball tampering after an ICC Code of Conduct hearing at The Oval, but has been found guilty of the charge of bringing the game into disrepute and banned for four ODIs. He...

This ‘graduate’ garbage I have objection to the qualification of being a graduate for a legislator. What these graduates have delivered to the nation and the people is there for all to see. Nothing has been put right in the country. The aim of forming a government is to ensure...

No, we aren’t a banana republic! Sarmad Bashir Less than a month short of the seventh anniversary of the military takeover, the Musharraf government was virtually shaken by the rumours of a coup that spread across the country within hours with the massive power breakdown adding...

The Times September 26, 2006 M16 'didn't tell us that 7/7 bombers were in Pakistan' By Daniel McGrory PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF of Pakistan says he is angered by the failure of British police and intelligence services to stop young British militants such as the 7/7 suicide bombers visiting...

S had asked Benazir to remove AQ Khan in 1988: Musharraf NEW YORK: President General Pervez Musharraf has revealed that the US had asked former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to remove Dr. Abdul Qadeer in 1988, however, it could not happen due to opposition by the then president Ghulam Ishaque...

'Out of Box' Kashmir solution Afzal Khan Islamabad - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has spelled out details of “out of the box” solution to the Kashmir dispute in his book whose excerpts were published by Indian daily The Hindu on Saturday. It has emerged that the Indian...

Musharraf `buckled' under threat FIVE YEARS ON: The Pakistani president's revelation that the US had threatened military action against Pakistan if it didn't join the `war on terror' may undermine his image AFP , ISLAMABAD Sunday, Sep 24, 2006 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's...

By Rahimullah Yusufzai PESHAWAR: In his book, In the Line of Fire, President Pervez Musharraf writes that Pakistani forces captured 689 members of al-Qaeda and turned over 369 of them to the US to earn millions of dollars in “prize money” for his government from the CIA. This...

40 female cadets joining PMA from Oct: VCOAS ISLAMABAD: An impressive passing-out parade of 114 PMA, 28th Graduate and 33rd Integrated Course was held at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul on Saturday. Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCAS) General Ahsan Saleem Hayat was the reviewing...

Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program The Beginning If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. We have no other choice. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - 1965 By Carey Sublette 2001 Historical Background Since the dawn of...

Musharraf is my ideal: Hindu cadet ISLAMABAD: A Hindu cadet Danesh on Saturday said President General Pervez Musharraf was his ideal leader and personality inspiring him to join the Pak Army. He observed this on the occasion of passing out parade of the 114 Long Course, 28th Graduate Course...

Kargil was a tactical victory OUR MONITORING DESK In a freewheeling account of his life, General Pervez Musharraf emphatically states that “whatever movement has taken place so far in the direction of finding a solution in Kashmir is owed considerably to the Kargil conflict,”...