Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf returns to politics with the launch of a new political party.
Pakistani paramilitary Rangers say "suspected militants" set fire to 27 tankers overnight that were carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, apparently in retaliation for an alleged cross-border NATO helicopter strike that killed three Pakistani troops.
Speaking in London, where he is preparing to launch a political party in a bid for a comeback as a civilian president, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan's army should be given a constitutional role in the country's politics.
Pakistan is investigating reports that a U.S. drone missile strike killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander on September 25 as he traveled in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said the mandate of foreign troops in Afghanistan ends at the Afghan border.
Pakistan has taken over the chairmanship of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, despite that country's exclusion from a key atomic agreement and a suspected role in proliferation.
NATO and Afghan forces have stepped up pressure on insurgents in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
During a televised press conference, Abdul Qayum Jatoi said the Pakistani Army was provided with funds to defend the country, not to get involved in political assassinations.
U.S. Captian Ryan Donald, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, justified the attack as an act of "self-defense" after insurgents reportedly attacked an Afghan security outpost on September 25 in Khost Province, which borders Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area.
Swedish police have detained a man on a Pakistan International Airlines plane that made an emergency landing in Stockholm after Canadian authorities received a tip that a passenger was carrying explosives.
Pakistan's civilian government is apparently unwilling to follow a directive by the Supreme Court to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland. The case is just the latest challenge to the civilian administration, setting up a collision course that observers say could end in a judicial coup that could mean the end of the coalition government and return to military rule.
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