The imposition of emergency rule across much of Pakistan this week has led to a mixture of responses from opposition figures, ranging from condemnation to warnings and efforts by President Asif Ali Zardari to defend what many are seeing as a rather blatant power grab....
Despite claims from the Deputy Chairman of Planning that the government intends to stop the rally "at all costs" and the Punjab Home Secretary saying the army would be called in, organizers say Pakistan's long-awaited "long march" will go ahead as planned tomorrow....
Last Updated 3/11/09 10:30 PM EST With the Afghan frontier in a near constant state of insurrection, and separatist movements remaining a top concern in Balochistan, the twin provinces of Sindh and Punjab have been the stable, safe part of Pakistan. That now appears...
Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz have been placed under house arrest today as the national government attempts to consolidate its authority in the Punjab Province against growing popular unrest. The move was just the first step in a...
Just hours after the Pakistani government threatened opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with "life imprisonment and a fine" for sedition, Sharif spoke at a rally in Jhelum. At the rally, he declared that "we cannot leave Pakistan at the mercy of...
Late last month the Pakistani Supreme Court declared opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz (chief minister of the Punjab Province) ineligible to hold public offices for opposing the 1999 military coup of Pervez Musharraf,...
Protests were sparked across Pakistan today when the Supreme Court decided that Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister and opposition leader, as well as his younger brother Shahbaz were ineligible to hold public offices. The ruling brought down the Punjabi Provincial...
