WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- You are president of Pakistan. Your country faces seemingly intractable and simultaneous crises. You rightly believe that an existential threat to the nation is posed by the insurgencies led by religious zealots and extremists. Your nation suffers from an extended economic crisis, and you are dependent on billions in foreign loans to prevent bankruptcy and to purchase food and energy that are in critically short supply for your people.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 16 (UPI) -- Deposed Pakistani Chief Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry and other judges were reinstated Monday, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said.

MANIPAL, India, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- After Pervez Musharraf himself, the individual who will be most nervous at the resignation of Pakistan's president is the Pakistan People's Party co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari. For it was Musharraf -- admittedly with repeated prodding from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- who offered Benazir Bhutto's widower amnesty from the numerous corruption cases against him in exchange for his party's support for his presidency.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 (UPI) -- Pakistani lawyers, upset over the delay by the new government to reinstate dismissed judges, began a march toward Islamabad to press their demands.

QUETTA, Pakistan, April 1 (UPI) -- Crowds of supporters greeted the Pakistani chief justice in Quetta, Pakistan, for the first time since his release from five months of detention.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Some 80,000 Pakistani soldiers who man the non-existent border between the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the Afghan border have stood down, but no one knows who gave the order or whether they are even taking orders. Taliban and al-Qaida terrorist training camps are up and running again with the acquiescence -- or impotence -- of the Pakistani army. That’s the word by satellite phone from this reporter’s sources in Miranshah and Wana, the capitals of North and South Waziristan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 (UPI) -- The reinstatement of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry could upset President Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 19 (UPI) -- A Pakistani Supreme Court ruling is expected soon on the fate of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, amid growing violence in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has no plans for an emergency declaration despite rising violence and says elections will be held this year as planned.