Iranian President Ahmadinejad meets Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Tehran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (L) meet, as Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli looks on, in Tehran, Iran on March 10, 2009. (UPI Photo/Iranian President's Office)
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, arrived Wednesday in Pakistan, a close Beijing ally where a new civilian government is ready to take charge.
Nawaz Sharif was set Monday to lead Pakistan after his party seemed to have won the most seats in elections marking Pakistan's first democratic power transfer.
More than half of Pakistan's Muslims would prefer a strong leader to a democratic government, an international poll released Friday indicated.
Pakistan aims to finalize the contracts necessary to start work on a section of a natural gas pipeline planned from Iran, a government official said.
Pakistani political parties should stop vilifying President Asif Ali Zardari in their election campaigns, the president's spokesman said.
Pakistani police Friday took ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf to court from his farmhouse where he went the previous day after being ordered arrested.
Pakistan election officials, assessing security during the general elections, have designated a third of the polling stations as sensitive, sources told Dawn.
A bombing at a rally of Pakistan's secular Awami National Party in Peshawar killed 17 and wounded dozens in the latest election-related attack, police said.
Pakistan's Election Commission says candidates in next month's general elections cannot seek vote in the name of religion, caste or sex.
A secular party candidate in Pakistan's upcoming general elections was shot and killed by Pakistani Taliban militants in Sindh province, authorities said.
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