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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Tens of millions Pakistanis will vote, marking the first time in Pakistan's history that an elected civilian government and will be replaced democratically.
The political party of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Friday it would not participate in elections scheduled for May 11.
The leaders of two of Pakistan's secular liberal political parties condemned recent Taliban-orchestrated bombings that left 17 people dead ahead of next month's national elections.
Eight people died and 29 were injured Sunday in two separate bombings at election offices in Pakistan, police said.
Pakistan's electoral commission has allowed former military dictator and returned exile Pervez Musharraf to run in the May parliamentary elections.
The U.S. has lost the media war in Pakistan. Popular talk show hosts have already made up their minds that America is preparing a war against their country.
Anti-drone and former international cricket star Imran Khan will contest a Parliamentary seat in this year's Pakistani national elections.
The deployment of a EU mission to observe general elections in Pakistan should enhance voter confidence, the EU foreign policy chief said.
Pakistan's former president and Parliamentary hopeful Pervez Musharraf said the country is in a "do or die" situation from which only he can rescue it.
Lt. Gen. Shahid Aziz, a leader in the bloodless 1999 coup d'etat in Pakistan, said he is ready to face charges for violating the Constitution.
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