Pakistan prepares for election
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enters to a car among his supporters during a visit to the shrine of Muslim saint Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan on February 16, 2008. Pakistan has deployed nearly 81,000 soldiers through the region with orders to shoot anyone suspected of committing violence on election day. (UPI Photo/Hossein Fatemi)
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- As long as government remains broken and destructive in the United States, political change is inevitable.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Pakistan's political forces were at loggerheads Sunday, the day before a scheduled confidence vote in Parliament.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A court has ordered the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, accused in the so-called memogate controversy, not to travel outside Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is being pressed to investigate allegations in a memo implicating the country's ambassador to the United States.
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- A former Pakistani intelligence officer alleges Osama bin Laden has met five times with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court Friday acquitted Nawaz Sharif in a plane hijacking case going back to when he was prime minister.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 26 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is now free to run for Parliament and hold public office, the country's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- The White House is moving to establish better relations with the chief rival of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, administration sources say.
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- George Bernard Shaw quipped that England and America were two like nations divided by a common language. Today, Pakistan and America are divided by far more than language. One of the most divisive dangers beyond al-Qaida and extremism is the looming trust deficit between Pakistan and America. Bridging this gap is crucial to defeating the existential economic and security threats to Pakistan and to safeguarding our interests in the process.
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