Asif Ali Zardari (shown in March, 2008 file photo), became Pakistan's new president after being elected by parliament on Saturday, September 6, 2008. Zardari, 53, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, succeeds Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who was forced to resign last month under the threat of impeachment. He spent 11 years in jail on corruption charges that were not proven, and is seen as strongly pro-Western and supportive of U.S. efforts to battle militant Taliban extremists both in neighboring Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan itself. (UPI Photo/Sajjad Ali Qureshi/Files)
Pervez Musharraf is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
Musharraf's Exit Won't Solve Pakistan's Problems
It has been a bad week for Pakistans president, Pervez Musharraf. The assembly of Sind province, following the Punjab, and the North-West Frontier provinces, has just voted for him to quit, or subject himself to a no confidence vote in the national assembly. Thats three out of Pakistans four provinces.
Musharraf to Fight Impeachment Bid
AMMAN – Pakistans coalition government says it will launch proceedings to impeach the highly unpopular president, Pervez Musharraf, on mismanagement charges; but the former general will not leave without a fight that could drag the nuclear-armed country into new realms of uncertainty.
Peace Deals that Destabilize Afghanistan
Present and past peace negotiations between Pakistan and the Taliban in the countrys Federally Administered Tribal Areas have coincided with increased cross-border terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
Rainbow – or Guns of August?
Back in Oct. 2005, two months after he had become president, Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – or as Jay Leno calls the tongue-twister, "Im-a-dinner-jacket" – drew world attention when he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Denials were slow in coming. Various Iranian experts said he had been misquoted when he painted the broad brush strokes of history when a purely Jewish state would cease to exist.
Settlement in Afghanistan: Back to 1997?
Lessons from Taliban-Northern Alliance Agreement
