Pakistan prepares for election
Pakistani women hold pictures of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif as one of them salutes 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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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.
MANIPAL, India, March 18 (UPI) -- Regular readers of this column will not have been surprised at recent developments in Pakistan, in which army chief Ashfaq Kayani enforced the surrender of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government to the demands of the Pakistan Muslim League-N chief, Nawaz Sharif. The core purpose of Kayani's institution is to ensure the continued supremacy of Wahhabi Punjabis over all other groups in Pakistan, a mission that it has fulfilled thus far.
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 15 (UPI) -- Opposition Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif left his home in Lahore, Pakistan, and headed toward Islamabad Sunday as supporters cheered him, observers said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 11 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials seeking to prevent a planned protest march have arrested dozens of opposition political figures, activists say.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday he sees a "ray of hope" that will likely lead to major changes in the country.
