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WAP99101301 - 13 OCTOBER 1999 - WAHINGTON, D.C., USA: Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, front, shown in this 1990 file photo. Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of the Army General Pervaiz Musharraf dismissed Sharif's government October 12 and placed him under house arrest. rg/File Photo UPI
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UPI Almanac for Monday, Oct. 12, 2009.
LONDON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, now living in London, is guarded round-the-clock at a taxpayer cost of nearly $42,000 a day, a London paper says.
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, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Despite a continuing flow of depressing reports from Pakistan about the safety and security of this strategically vital American ally, on the eve of President Asif Ali Zardari's first anniversary as president, the latest news, at least anecdotally, offers a glimmer of optimism.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke is reaching out to anti-American Pakistani Islamic politicians for dialogue, officials say.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A former Pakistani diplomat has been found tortured and slain in Islamabad, police said Saturday.
WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Britain calls for a change in Afghan strategy, urging the Afghan government to engage in diplomacy with “moderate” Taliban. Trouble is CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus doesn’t believe in moderate Taliban. But Pakistani strategy is now based on some kind of accommodation with Taliban. This is also Britain’s new position.
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 5 (UPI) -- As today's trilateral meetings among U.S. President Barack Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari begin, the mood in Washington, amplified by a media that reports Pakistan is in chaos and could implode, is especially grim. Many observers see this as Obama's greatest foreign policy test and one in which no U.S. option looks particularly appealing.
